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Nobody is putting wind turbines near housing developments. Wind turbines are noisy up close (you don't want your house next door), and they build to a lower saf

Nobody is putting wind turbines near housing developments. Wind turbines are noisy up close (you don't want your house next door), and they build to a lower safety standard on the assumption that even in the worst case failure nobody is close enough to be hurt (they still build to a high enough standard that I'm not aware of any failure that could kill someone if they had be there, despite tens of thousands in the world) They put them in farm fields, you just rent the whole field for the year from the farmer, land the planes, and next year it is framed again. (the farmer will likely be allowed to plant hay in the field and work with you to cut that)

ooterness 1y ago
> Wind turbines are noisy up close... Citation needed. I toured a wind farm a few months ago, and they were barely audible at ground level.
- bluGill 1y ago
  The noise isn't loud - but it is constant and annoying to listen to all day.
krisoft 1y ago
> they still build to a high enough standard that I'm not aware of any failure that could kill someone if they had be there There is a bunch of very energetic windturbine collapses captured on video. In each case someone standing at the wrong spot could have been crushed by falling debris. (Altough i also must admit an overspeeding turbine looks so plainly obviously deadly that anyone with a healthy dose of self preservation would evacuate the danger zone. At least in the cases where we have video of the collapse. There might be a bias to that of course, because nobody would think of filming an unexpected sudden collapse.) A particularly well documented one is the Hornslet wind turbine collapse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornslet_wind-turbine_collapse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornslet_wind-turbine_collap... https://youtu.be/jvHBUSSAzyw?si=NDpN-ZgXqPrTavvk https://youtu.be/jvHBUSSAzyw?si=NDpN-ZgXqPrTavvk There was this one in Oklahoma: https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-turbine-collapses-on-calm-day-in-oklahoma-another-is-struck-by-lightning/amp/ https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-turbine-collapses-on-calm-d... This i believe happened in Italy: https://youtu.be/af9Mm5nkNAQ?si=wajCXTCpN19z9okJ https://youtu.be/af9Mm5nkNAQ?si=wajCXTCpN19z9okJ Just a few days ago there was a collapse in Perth: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5330408/blades-perth-aviva-wind-turbine/ https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5330408/blades-perth-av... There is also a widely shared very dramatic video with horses running away from the turbine just before it collapses. But because i can’t figure out where it happened, and if it even happened, i’m reluctant to include here.
- viraptor 1y ago
  > would evacuate the danger zone I wonder how big is the danger zone. The blades seem to come off all at the same time, some to the sides, some up/down. There's quite a lot of kinetic energy there...

ooterness 1y ago

> Wind turbines are noisy up close... Citation needed. I toured a wind farm a few months ago, and they were barely audible at ground level.

bluGill 1y ago
The noise isn't loud - but it is constant and annoying to listen to all day.

krisoft 1y ago

> they still build to a high enough standard that I'm not aware of any failure that could kill someone if they had be there There is a bunch of very energetic windturbine collapses captured on video. In each case someone standing at the wrong spot could have been crushed by falling debris. (Altough i also must admit an overspeeding turbine looks so plainly obviously deadly that anyone with a healthy dose of self preservation would evacuate the danger zone. At least in the cases where we have video of the collapse. There might be a bias to that of course, because nobody would think of filming an unexpected sudden collapse.) A particularly well documented one is the Hornslet wind turbine collapse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornslet_wind-turbine_collapse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornslet_wind-turbine_collap... https://youtu.be/jvHBUSSAzyw?si=NDpN-ZgXqPrTavvk https://youtu.be/jvHBUSSAzyw?si=NDpN-ZgXqPrTavvk There was this one in Oklahoma: https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-turbine-collapses-on-calm-day-in-oklahoma-another-is-struck-by-lightning/amp/ https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-turbine-collapses-on-calm-d... This i believe happened in Italy: https://youtu.be/af9Mm5nkNAQ?si=wajCXTCpN19z9okJ https://youtu.be/af9Mm5nkNAQ?si=wajCXTCpN19z9okJ Just a few days ago there was a collapse in Perth: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5330408/blades-perth-aviva-wind-turbine/ https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5330408/blades-perth-av... There is also a widely shared very dramatic video with horses running away from the turbine just before it collapses. But because i can’t figure out where it happened, and if it even happened, i’m reluctant to include here.

viraptor 1y ago
> would evacuate the danger zone I wonder how big is the danger zone. The blades seem to come off all at the same time, some to the sides, some up/down. There's quite a lot of kinetic energy there...