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2004-01-31 Britain
Wind farms ’make people sick who live up to a mile away’
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Posted by Steve White 2004-01-31 12:19:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [97 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 
The Greens would complain if they were hung with a new rope.
Any chance they will be? :-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-1-31 12:22:20 AM||   2004-1-31 12:22:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Any chance Leni Riefenstahl Barbara Hole-out will be?
Posted by NotMike Moore 2004-1-31 1:01:29 AM||   2004-1-31 1:01:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Attach flutes and oboes to the tips of the blades so that they make a nice cheery noise?
Posted by snellenr  2004-1-31 1:33:45 AM||   2004-1-31 1:33:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 NotMikeMoore - We don't generally go in for personal abuse here at Rantburg and I suggest you restrict your abuse to left wing sites where it seems to the standard for interaction.
Posted by phil_b 2004-1-31 6:59:29 AM||   2004-1-31 6:59:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 We don't generally go in for personal abuse here

Didn't you get the memo? It's open season on Faisal, et al. Murat season opens soon, I think. Aris is open all year.
Posted by Rafael 2004-1-31 7:47:07 AM||   2004-1-31 7:47:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Didn't you get the memo? It's open season on Faisal, et al. Murat season opens soon, I think. Aris is open all year.

What's the bag limit?
Posted by badanov  2004-1-31 8:11:36 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-1-31 8:11:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Barbara,
They can be hanged but only if the rope is hemp.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-1-31 8:38:18 AM||   2004-1-31 8:38:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Gee NMM, you don't get attacked until you say something stupid. Why can't you afford the same behavior to others?
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-1-31 9:02:02 AM||   2004-1-31 9:02:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 They've been complaining about the wind farms killing birds, too. Guess we human-types just can't do anything right.
Posted by Dar  2004-1-31 10:17:52 AM||   2004-1-31 10:17:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 NotMikeMoore (or maybe you are): Care to explain further? I don't get the joke, or the reference.

Whitecollar redneck: LOL
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-1-31 10:52:09 AM||   2004-1-31 10:52:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Continuous low frequency noise is used as torture. No shit, haven't you ever been stuck at a traffic light with some snot-nose blasting Eminem next to you ?
Posted by Anonynoony 2004-1-31 10:58:15 AM||   2004-1-31 10:58:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 I spent yesterday next to a screaming 200 MW GE Steam Turbine. I feel groovy what with that paycheck 'n' all. Plus my ears are clean from the earplugs. We call that a bonus.

My computer fan on the other hand is out of hand. I am going to lay down now...
Posted by Zpaz 2004-1-31 11:05:39 AM||   2004-1-31 11:05:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Does anyone remember the "Brown Noise" episode of South Park where the whole world sh*t its pants? There has been research in that area concerning crowd control. It's hard to riot when you're carrying a load in your pants.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-1-31 11:09:45 AM||   2004-1-31 11:09:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 BS,
I know someone will correct me if I'm wrong (thanks ahead of time) but Leni Riefenstahl made "The Power of Will" for Hitler. I don't understand the reference though.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-1-31 11:20:58 AM||   2004-1-31 11:20:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 On another windmill note. Does anyone remember the stink that some of the Kennedy clan were making about the potential windfarm that could be viewed from their compound (Versaille) on the Cape? Freekin' hilarious! Talk about the Bourbons of the US.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-1-31 11:26:04 AM||   2004-1-31 11:26:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 NMM wrote: Any chance Leni Riefenstahl Barbara Hole-out will be?

C'mon, NMM, be a sport, we're all supposed to be friends here. You can Barb can have a mutual exchange of blunt instruments elsewhere.
Posted by Steve White  2004-1-31 1:09:23 PM||   2004-1-31 1:09:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 As someone with a serious tinnitus and hyperaccusis problem (~70dB at 6000hz, bilateral, constant, with "supporting" sounds ranging from 800hz to about 10,000hz), this is not a joke. My wife and I are seriously moving to an area where our nearest neighbor is ten MILES away, just to get away from extraneous noise.

As for the traffic noise, between the constant bouncing from the potholes to the constant blare of some people's idea of "music", by the time I make the 12-mile one-way commute to take my wife to work or bring her home, I'm a basket case, and need at least two hours of NOTHING in order to recover.

My case isn't "normal", and what these people have to put up with is different, but it's still a serious concern. Sounds like someone didn't do any HUMAN engineering when they were working on the design. Maybe they can relocate these "wind farms" to some more isolated, uninhabited areas, such as some of the bare rocks off the northeast coast of Scotland.
Posted by Old Patriot  2004-1-31 6:52:21 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2004-1-31 6:52:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Don't worry about that, Redneck. The clan is probably so shitfaced when they're at "the compound" that they probably see it already. Or visions a lot worse.
Posted by tu3031 2004-1-31 6:54:16 PM||   2004-1-31 6:54:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Is rap music low frequncy?
Posted by Super Hose  2004-1-31 7:31:44 PM||   2004-1-31 7:31:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Whitecollar redneck - I know who that unrepentant Nazi was. What I don't understand is the meaning of his comment.

But then, he probably doesn't either. :-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-1-31 9:12:23 PM||   2004-1-31 9:12:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Frequency of noise
this is from memory - I might be off a bit, but not too much

typical truck exhaust noise is about 300 hz, human voice can as low as about 60 hz and about as high as 1600 hz. Typical male rap singer is about 150 hz but lowest notes of bass guitar are at 60 hz or below
Posted by mhw 2004-1-31 10:21:06 PM||   2004-1-31 10:21:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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