In order to get the opposition position out here quickly, today I’m offering a video, again from UK, in which footage is taken of an older generation wind turbine that generates no apparent noise. You’ll hear the narrator talking, you’ll hear a car in the background, but you won’t hear the turbine.
When trying to assess a situation like this, more questions are sometimes better than more answers. For instance: What is the difference in noise level between a wind turbine with no load and one operating at full capacity? It might seem obvious that the more heavily loaded turbine will be much noisier, a trait fully disclosed by the turbine manufacturers. So when watching these or any other videos, be aware that the videographers may be choosing the right circumstances to most bolster their opinion.
This public disagreement will continue for a long time, I’m sure. The trick is to keep it in the public’s mind long enough for these claims (on both sides) to be more thoroughly investigated before too many millions of dollars are spent in constructing such apparently problematic infrastructure. See what you think:
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