Patti Lienau said there is no way to escape the hum or flickering shadows from the turbines built by her father's farm near Elkton, Minn.
ELKTON, MINN. -- Every sunny morning, shadows from the massive rotating blades swing across their breakfast table. The giant towers dominate the view from their deck. Noise from the turbines fills the silence that Dolores and Rudy Jech once enjoyed on their Minnesota farm.
"Rudy and I are retired, and we like to sit out on our deck," Dolores said. "And that darned thing is right across the road from us. It's an eyesore, it's noisy, and having so many of them there's a constant hum."
Just as they are being touted as a green, economical and job-producing energy source, wind farms in Minnesota are starting to get serious blowback. Across the state, people are opposing projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Opposition is also rising in other states. It's not likely to blow over quickly in Minnesota, which is the nation's fourth-largest producer of wind power and on track to double its 1,805-megawatt capacity in the next couple of years.
Told ya so!!
Wind turbines are a really stupid way to generate electricity. They are noisy, ugly, and take up an inordinate amount of real estate relative to the power they put out.
AND...
They do NOT replace old school generators due to one actual, real world fact - the wind does not blow continuously. Just ask the folks in Texas and now in England. Duh.
I hope this fad fades away like AGW. The sooner the better.
There is another big problem related to the forced implementation of these most ugly wind turbines: their hum scares away bees and most birds. Here in Portugal we have the same problem.
The eco-fanatics woud argue that this is a minor inconvenience; but without bees there's nearly no polinization, hence agriculture goes down the drain. Those eco-maniacs are really absurd!...