Homeowners win battle to have noisy wind turbines taken down

$11 million three wind turbines? And Taco Barbie wants everyone to have a turbine. I don´t think $93 trillion is going to be enough.

Great! Maybe soon, we can be rid of the ones by Palm Springs.

Good news. I absolutely despise wind turbines. They are a huge eyesore and kill millions of birds across the country. And they are an ultra expensive, government subsidized, uneconomic boondoggle. They would NEVER be built if they had to compete on an economically level playing field.

The government forces BY LAW the utilities to buy the power from solar and wind suppliers, and at uncompetitive rates. And the wind turbine makers are subsidized by your tax dollars.

Stupid, stupid, stupid, like pretty much all other "green energy" boondoggles. I hate seeing them blotting the views, ruining the landscape, damned near everywhere. Great to have some of them torn down.

A friend who recently retired as a power company engineer told me that they had discovered that windmills make most of their power at night, when the grid already has massive excess capacity (most industry is down at night, the primary power users), and normal power stations are already turned down. Being forced to buy the unwanted wind power at night requires them to turn down the main power plants even lower, to where the thermal cycling reduces the time between rebuilds of the power plant, raising costs further.

Green energy is a stupid, uneconomic boondoggle and would never be done without taxpayer´s being ripped off twice, once to subsidize these disasters, and then to pay ever increasing power bills to pay for them again.

I’m familiar with these turbines. They were very close to town. The people who live by them had to be affected by them. They are now down, loaded on trucks and hauled away.

Luther College in Decorah has one outside of town. Many days the blades don’t turn. No wind. No “FREE” electricity on those days. Of course, the liberals in town don’t see that as a problem because electricity is right there at the wall socket. They are sure that it will always be.

I live in Indiana and we have A LOT of wind turbines. A lot. They’re eyesores but I don’t feel any ill effects from them. The closest one is less than a mile away. Does this mean I like them? No and for the reasons stated by #3

My brother and I own the old family ranch in far southwest Texas. It´s very remote and isolated, but I get letters every few weeks from companies wanting to lease our mountains for wind turbines. I never bother to respond. There´s not enough money to offset the eyesores and the racket.

Im ok with wind turbines, just not in my back yard. One or two is a novelty. A wind farm us an eyesore.

You need windspeeds of 7-9 miles per hour to turn the blades, making wind turbines useless in most areas. Which is why mountain tops, mountain passes and coastal areas are the best locations. Solar is most effective in the south where snow and days of overcast isnt an issue.

The most effective and reliable source of non-carbon electricity generation is the good ole nuclear reactor.

Complain all you want. When you drive through southern Minnestota and see a hundred of these things in the cornfield every mile, just remember that for every mile, a cellphone ,somehere, gets a charge for half a day or so.
Feel better now?

I drive through four wind farms to get to work here in Texas. Supposedly, Tx has more wind turbines than California. In addition to the problems mentioned by #3, there are always turbines which have caught fire and are awaiting replacement of the generator, or are working but are charred from previous fires. Also, I think the taxpayers are shafted not twice, but three times because of the wheeling and dealings with tax revenues for the schools and the inevitable rise in property taxes when the agreements expire. A true, and horribly costly boondoggle.

Good for you #6 - the "L" with them.

#9, and others here, do a search on "Wind Turbine Fires". They happen frequently, and there´s even a website about them.

It seems that anytime President Trump makes a joke that the liberal media and the leftist and liberal Democrats try to twist whatever Trump says into an impeachable offense. It’s really getting sad!

Looks like a hell of a lot of pollution to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=kbv0vH96D_A

Gee, maybe somebody can figure out how to get them to all just self-destruct. Perhaps a software worm. Just saying, if there is some good hacker out there looking for a way to have some fun.

Seem to recall Hillary mentioning how rural farmers were going to get rich by leasing their land to the wind turbine companies, and selling the electricity.

There is a NEW type of nuclear reactor that can be commercialized. I happened to come across an article in TIME magazine yesterday while waiting for a doctor visit. A young PhD at MIT and her co-inventor have updated an older style, much safer ,nuclear reactor, and started a company, but do not have the capital to make it commercially viable. Sorry, I do not know the date of the magazine but I am sure anyone reading can find it as it was a recent printing.

I despise wind turbines. Just compare them to a small oil pump - no contest. But, I think if we have to have them, paint them. Yeah, paint them like flowers. Multi-colors. Green stems and various colors on top. I know, silly, but it would look prettier:-)

In research conducted in 2006 focusing on the impact of sound emissions from wind turbines on the nearby population, perceived infrasound has been associated to effects such as annoyance or fatigue, depending on its intensity... Later studies, however, have linked inaudible infrasound to effects such as fullness, pressure or tinnitus, and acknowledged the possibility that it could disturb sleep. Other studies have also suggested associations between noise levels in turbines and self-reported sleep disturbances in the nearby population, while adding that the contribution of infrasound to this effect is still not fully understood. Wikipedia

Despite not knowing the effects on human populations, the left insists we must have them to "save the planet."

#16, for most of those environazis, killing off humans is a benefit, not a problem. Too many of them see humans as THE PROBLEM.

I have offered to lend them a 9mm to help them end their contribution to the problem, but so far, no takers.

President Trump did not say that wind turbines cause cancer, he remarked that others have said the wind turbines cause cancer. Trump comment was not reported correctly by the liberal media.