Comments on: Wind Energy Questions – How Noisy are Wind Turbines? http://www.windenergyplanning.com/wind-energy-questions-how-noisy-are-wind-turbines/ Renewable energy is essential to modern society - reducing harmful emissions from fossil fuels and making us more self sufficient. This site will explore what people are doing to help get us closer to a greener, renewable energy sourced world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:15:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Timlynn Babitsky http://www.windenergyplanning.com/wind-energy-questions-how-noisy-are-wind-turbines/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Timlynn Babitsky Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:02:28 +0000 http://www.windenergyplanning.com/?p=260#comment-26 Hi Vicky, I love your post. You are absolutely correct in suggesting that standing near a wind turbine will answer one's question "is it noise.... or music." “Noise” is definitely in the ear of the listener. What constitutes “noise” has pretty much shifted with every generation’s music. Ask any parent — what may be soothing rhythms to one can be headache producing racket to another. So, when it comes to the Noise Issue and wind turbines, there is no objective way to measure how upsetting a sound may be to one person and not another. Hi Vicky, I love your post. You are absolutely correct in suggesting that standing near a wind turbine will answer one’s question “is it noise…. or music.”

“Noise” is definitely in the ear of the listener. What constitutes “noise” has pretty much shifted with every generation’s music. Ask any parent — what may be soothing rhythms to one can be headache producing racket to another. So, when it comes to the Noise Issue and wind turbines, there is no objective way to measure how upsetting a sound may be to one person and not another.

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