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I love green energy .. especially solar as it is low impact and can produce both electricity and warm water.
But what about wind mills aka wind turbines or their multiples: wind farms ?
Have you ever driven towards Palm Springs from Riverside, East of Los Angeles .. hundreds and hundreds of windmills. An impressive sight .. luckily I am not a bird .. and luckily in the middle of nowhere .. and the noise nearby when the wind picks up (usually in the afternoon)..
Houses near a wind farm CAN DROP substantially in property value .. mainly due to noise (whomp whomp whomp .. all day and all night long ..) .. so much in fact that entire TOWNS now (in the UK and Netherlands) are opposed to even one windmill nearby !!
Here's a few blog entries about noise and property values:
http://obama-oversight.blogspot.com/2010/0...rty-values.html
http://www.windaction.org/news/c46/
http://www.stopwoodlanewindfarm.co.uk/property.htm
.. and so on ..
There is much debate .. and personally I find wind farms an OPTICAL POLLUTION .. for example the one on Grouse Mountain in North-Vancouver !
related post on weather pattern influence: http://myreinspace.com/rein_members_only1/Coffee_Shop/106-18375-Wind_farms_can_affect_local_weather_patterns.html
And being fairly noise sensitive I also would never want to live close to one (or a highway) ..
Thus: be mindful of property value impacts by so called "green" energy. A wind turbine is not only dangerous for birds, it is also ugly and noisy. Thus, I think they ought to be off-shore (as now done in the North Sea, out of sight from coast) or out-of-sight, or in very thinly populated windy parts of the country, like the Alberta / BC border east of Lethbridge .. or the deserts of California/Arizona/New Mexico!
Your thoughts ?
But what about wind mills aka wind turbines or their multiples: wind farms ?
Have you ever driven towards Palm Springs from Riverside, East of Los Angeles .. hundreds and hundreds of windmills. An impressive sight .. luckily I am not a bird .. and luckily in the middle of nowhere .. and the noise nearby when the wind picks up (usually in the afternoon)..
Houses near a wind farm CAN DROP substantially in property value .. mainly due to noise (whomp whomp whomp .. all day and all night long ..) .. so much in fact that entire TOWNS now (in the UK and Netherlands) are opposed to even one windmill nearby !!
Here's a few blog entries about noise and property values:
http://obama-oversight.blogspot.com/2010/0...rty-values.html
http://www.windaction.org/news/c46/
http://www.stopwoodlanewindfarm.co.uk/property.htm
.. and so on ..
There is much debate .. and personally I find wind farms an OPTICAL POLLUTION .. for example the one on Grouse Mountain in North-Vancouver !
related post on weather pattern influence: http://myreinspace.com/rein_members_only1/Coffee_Shop/106-18375-Wind_farms_can_affect_local_weather_patterns.html
And being fairly noise sensitive I also would never want to live close to one (or a highway) ..
Thus: be mindful of property value impacts by so called "green" energy. A wind turbine is not only dangerous for birds, it is also ugly and noisy. Thus, I think they ought to be off-shore (as now done in the North Sea, out of sight from coast) or out-of-sight, or in very thinly populated windy parts of the country, like the Alberta / BC border east of Lethbridge .. or the deserts of California/Arizona/New Mexico!
Your thoughts ?