Canadian wind farm neighbour Mulikow tries to describe the noise from his next door wind farm in the video below. As with all attempts to replicate ‘noise experiences’ this video struggles to represent accurately wind turbine noise due to the noise of the natural wind in the microphone and the fact that we – the listeners are located out of context. However Mulikaw gives what seems to be an un-emotive, and descriptive account of what it is like to live next to an operational wind farm. Don’t believe him though – go visit one for yourself.
Jay Warner
February 13th, 2011
I visited a wind turbine site in Wisconsin, USA once and heard a distinct whump whump whump sound as they turned. You apparently didn’t, at least from the recording. Perhaps you needed a wind sock over the microphone.
Have you had _any_ exposure to ’shadow flicker’?
Jay Warner
February 13th, 2011
Also, the video was posted in 2009. What information have you gained since then on bird and bat mortality?
wind
March 3rd, 2011
see the post http://www.windenergyplanning.com/are-bats-killed-by-wind-turbines/. I’m not sure if the results have been published. Bird protection bodies such as rspb are generally much more concerned by the impacts of climate change than the very small numbers of birds killed by wind turbines – see number 9 from http://www.windenergyplanning.com/top-ten-wind-energy-myths/
Graham Barral
July 11th, 2011
I am intrigued about your comment about flying a plane through the rotors. I would like to know more about this as I am planning to install a turbine close to my private airstrip and there is no data on wind turbine effects on aircraft
wind
July 14th, 2011
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a plane fly through wind turbine rotors (apart from in Mission Impossible). I think there is little information about the effects of turbulence from wind turbine blades on light aircraft but I know that some modelling work has shown there to be effects up to 10 -20 rotor diameters away (i.e.distance from blade tip to blade tip)
Joe Fordham
July 19th, 2011
Graham,
Are you some sort of nut having a joke about flying through the rotars? Will this be one small step for man one big laugh for mankind.With regard to the birds and bats being killed and the figure being very low. May I suggest to the person who is attending these sites to go before the foxes have had their breakfast. You don.t think wildlife is going to leave food lying about, surely.
Graham, please make sure you get good video cover when you decide to try your stunt if you survive it you will become even richer than you seem to be now. Goodluck.