This is the noise from a windy farm some 1600 feet away.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78QwBM_AD3s&feature=relatedSome explanation from the nearby resident based on first hand experience from living nearby.
Industrial wind turbine noise varies with the atmosphere and terrain. Often one of the quietest places to stand near a turbine is right underneath it. It's a little like standing beneath a 400 foot tall speaker. Turbine noise is broadcast outward and is especially troublesome at night when the air near the ground is still and the air at hub height is in motion. Standing beneath a turbine in the afternoon is the way most people who do not live in wind farms make their judgement about wind turbine noise. They stand there, listen for a minute, take pictures and drive off, go home and tell their friends that wind turbines don't make noise.
People who live in wind farms know more about turbine noise than they ever wanted to, and can't just drive off. Next time you want to listen to turbines, try it at nighttime, about 1000 feet to a quarter mile downwind from a turbine to get a better idea about what all the noise about turbine noise is about. To find out more about this issue, visit betterplan.squarespace.com
The warning for anyone who might be getting a windy farm located near them is to object officially as early as possible.Windy farms and CSG have a lot in common - they are great in someone else's neighborhood but to have one installed close to one's home is inviting long term disaster and inevitable health problems which will occur as a result of enduring long term stress.
Other problems experienced with windy farms is the spraying of oil on the ground, fire in the actual turbine, and the blade/s disintegrating and hurling large pieces of debris over quite a large area as the tips of the blades are travelling very fast. Otherwise they are quite a useful addition to the generation of energy - while the wind is blowing but not too fast.
This is a wind turbine flying to bits - hope nobody was anywhere close byhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=jADMIeEHadUThis is a wind turbine catching on firehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfHxINzGeoWind power drives a wind turbine generator to make electricity, but judging from the number of wind turbine fires and other wind turbine accidents reported on YouTube alone, the wind turbine manufacturers must be having a field day replacing all the wind turbine units in farms specially built for wind turbines.
On Christmas Eve 2005, a wind turbine generator at the wind turbine farm of Nissan car plant in Sunderland caught fire at the top of one of the wind turbines, and the flames, fuelled by wind power, rapidly spread to the Wind Turbine sails before finally burning out.
Both lanes of the nearby A19 trunk road had to be closed to traffic because of the danger caused by the wind turbine fire, and the other wind turbines were stopped.
The towers of the wind turbines are 200 feet high to catch the maximum wind power, so the wind turbine generator was not accessible to fire crews.
Eventually, all 3 of the 75 foot long blades of the Wind Turbine, or what was left of them, dropped off.
The central power pack of the wind turbine generator at the top of the Wind Turbine mast is thought to be the cause of the fire, and these wind turbine accidents are not uncommon.
The 6 wind turbines were bought second hand from German wind turbine manufacturers, and there are many reports of wind turbine generator fires on the Internet.
Wind turbine accidents and wind turbine fires in the wind turbine generator units at the top of wind turbines in The Netherlands, Palm Springs CA, Hornslet near Aarhus, Denmark, and Burgos in Spain have all had accidents involving fire.
Wind Power supplies Nissan in Sunderland with just a small amount of power through 10 wind turbines.