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People don't like windmills because they are "ugly". They don't like power-lines in the country side. They certainly wouldn't like a 2.5M+ diameter tube runni

by Swannie 14y ago

People don't like windmills because they are "ugly". They don't like power-lines in the country side. They certainly wouldn't like a 2.5M+ diameter tube running around. In London, 56% (IIRC) of the "Underground" is above ground, much of that above road level.

jacquesm 14y ago
It beats looking at a 6 laner highway! And you could burry it halfway and still have easy access.
monk_e_boy 14y ago
we have a lot of wind turbines where I live. You get a strobe sounds of wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh if you are down wind of them. They are noisy. Also, if the sunlight catches them you also get a strobe reflection off them. That is also horrible. There is a farmer who has 2 turbines up, he lives on the far side of a hill about a km away - you can still hear those whoosh-whoosh-whoosh all day long. Painful. Powerlines also run over a lot of campsites near my house, you can hear them hummmmmm and crackle. In the damp/rain/mist/fog you can hear a lot of crackling and humming from them. I can understand why people get angry with them. In urban areas where there is a lot of noise, I guess you wouldn't notice it so much. Off topic, but my sister worked in a place where they put the magnets into wind turbines. There was a loud crash one day, someone had a magnet on a pallet, lifted it with a forklift and drove it out to a van. Half way the magnet got sucked by another magnet (in one of the factories) and burst through the wall and the two clamped together. They never got them apart and had to take the remaining bits of the turbine apart from around them.
- jacquesm 14y ago
  > Off topic, but my sister worked in a place where they put the magnets into wind turbines. There was a loud crash one day, someone had a magnet on a pallet, lifted it with a forklift and drove it out to a van. Half way the magnet got sucked by another magnet (in one of the factories) and burst through the wall and the two clamped together. They never got them apart and had to take the remaining bits of the turbine apart from around them. What city was this in? Which manufacturer?

by Swannie 14y ago

jacquesm 14y ago

It beats looking at a 6 laner highway! And you could burry it halfway and still have easy access.

monk_e_boy 14y ago

we have a lot of wind turbines where I live. You get a strobe sounds of wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh if you are down wind of them. They are noisy. Also, if the sunlight catches them you also get a strobe reflection off them. That is also horrible. There is a farmer who has 2 turbines up, he lives on the far side of a hill about a km away - you can still hear those whoosh-whoosh-whoosh all day long. Painful. Powerlines also run over a lot of campsites near my house, you can hear them hummmmmm and crackle. In the damp/rain/mist/fog you can hear a lot of crackling and humming from them. I can understand why people get angry with them. In urban areas where there is a lot of noise, I guess you wouldn't notice it so much. Off topic, but my sister worked in a place where they put the magnets into wind turbines. There was a loud crash one day, someone had a magnet on a pallet, lifted it with a forklift and drove it out to a van. Half way the magnet got sucked by another magnet (in one of the factories) and burst through the wall and the two clamped together. They never got them apart and had to take the remaining bits of the turbine apart from around them.

jacquesm 14y ago
> Off topic, but my sister worked in a place where they put the magnets into wind turbines. There was a loud crash one day, someone had a magnet on a pallet, lifted it with a forklift and drove it out to a van. Half way the magnet got sucked by another magnet (in one of the factories) and burst through the wall and the two clamped together. They never got them apart and had to take the remaining bits of the turbine apart from around them. What city was this in? Which manufacturer?