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MaineYooper Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 07:05 AM
Response to Reply #34
46. agreed-
I'd also like to take people who complain about how windmills spoil their view on an aerial tour of West Virginia. The devastation and destruction generated by mountain-top removal coal mining is staggering, and in my opinion really makes complaining about spoiled views from windmills seem ridiculous in comparison.
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  -Wind (Turbines) whips up health fears RamboLiberal  Aug-17-08 04:54 PM   #0 
  - Sell Out and Move  Demeter   Aug-17-08 04:57 PM   #1 
  - That's a stupid answer IMHO  RamboLiberal   Aug-17-08 05:01 PM   #2 
  - The problem is that they have to go somewhere, and "out-there"  SoCalDem   Aug-17-08 05:02 PM   #3 
  - Who is going to buy the house?  MiltonF   Aug-17-08 05:06 PM   #5 
     - The Wind Turbine People  Demeter   Aug-17-08 06:18 PM   #33 
  - Wind energy sounds so passive and calm and natural --  gateley   Aug-17-08 05:05 PM   #4 
  - I've ridden my bike through the Altamont.  Xithras   Aug-18-08 10:04 AM   #67 
  - The power company should be buying out all homeowners within a certain distance  gristy   Aug-17-08 05:13 PM   #6 
  - they do sometimes pay "nuisance fees"...  QuestionAll   Aug-17-08 06:00 PM   #28 
  - Hypochondriacal NIMBYism???  kestrel91316   Aug-17-08 05:22 PM   #7 
  - Here's her website FWIW  RamboLiberal   Aug-17-08 05:27 PM   #9 
     - I think most people are complaining...  yibbehobba   Aug-18-08 07:45 AM   #51 
  - "Wind Turbine Syndrome?" Give me a fucking break  Canuckistanian   Aug-17-08 05:26 PM   #8 
  - Unlike Wind Turbines factories and power plants are not located in residential areas. n/t  MiltonF   Aug-17-08 05:29 PM   #10 
  - Do you live near wind turbines?  RamboLiberal   Aug-17-08 05:31 PM   #11 
  - Not Even Close...  Junkdrawer   Aug-17-08 05:40 PM   #15 
  - Germans seem to think there is a problem with noise  RamboLiberal   Aug-17-08 05:46 PM   #20 
  - Ahem...I am Junkdrawer and my post was to show that the "noise problem"...  Junkdrawer   Aug-17-08 05:49 PM   #21 
     - My brain fart - didn't look at the poster first  RamboLiberal   Aug-17-08 05:56 PM   #27 
  - Not to point out the obvious but that information is from Turbines from 14 years ago.  MiltonF   Aug-17-08 05:56 PM   #25 
  - Only with the ones that actually do the blowing.  A HERETIC I AM   Aug-17-08 05:53 PM   #23 
  - I have a small wind turbine on my property  Canuckistanian   Aug-17-08 05:54 PM   #24 
  - Nonetheless  wtmusic   Aug-17-08 08:07 PM   #38 
  - A good friend of mine lives near this:  Lorien   Aug-18-08 09:47 AM   #64 
  - actually...  MaineYooper   Aug-17-08 06:14 PM   #32 
  - I actually read the article  Canuckistanian   Aug-17-08 06:27 PM   #34 
     - agreed-  MaineYooper   Aug-18-08 07:05 AM   #46 
  - Nina Pierpoint wrote the "Wind Turbine Syndrome". Cockle is  ladjf   Aug-17-08 10:08 PM   #43 
  - With the high price of food, think of all the  RC   Aug-17-08 05:33 PM   #12 
  - It's a giant fan on a stick  krispos42   Aug-17-08 05:34 PM   #13 
  - That is it, exactly.  Jesuswasntafascist   Aug-18-08 07:45 AM   #50 
  - German boffins use "anti noise" to silence wind turbines...  Junkdrawer   Aug-17-08 05:35 PM   #14 
  - So there is a problem  RamboLiberal   Aug-17-08 05:44 PM   #19 
  - 35 to 45 decibels is pretty quiet to begin with...  Junkdrawer   Aug-17-08 05:52 PM   #22 
  - Ah, yes. Of course. Perfect application for anti-noise.  gristy   Aug-17-08 06:03 PM   #29 
  - Wind machines are also 24 hour/day gang stalkers  DS1   Aug-17-08 05:41 PM   #16 
  - There is a Wind Turbine sitting in a car up the street right now.  A HERETIC I AM   Aug-17-08 05:56 PM   #26 
     - Tell me when its buddies show up  DS1   Aug-17-08 06:03 PM   #30 
        - I love you guys. That's all. eom  uppityperson   Aug-18-08 07:18 AM   #47 
  - In the mountains Pennsylvania the Audubon Society  RamboLiberal   Aug-17-08 05:42 PM   #17 
  - Our local Sierra Club is fight hard FOR wind energy...n/t  Junkdrawer   Aug-17-08 05:43 PM   #18 
  - it's all in what you get used to...  QuestionAll   Aug-17-08 06:05 PM   #31 
  - I'd have more sympathy if it wasn't for this buried at the bottom of the article:  hedgehog   Aug-17-08 06:29 PM   #35 
  - Exactly  XOKCowboy   Aug-17-08 06:43 PM   #36 
  - She likes to live in a remote area, so she has a "trophy home"?  wtmusic   Aug-17-08 07:51 PM   #37 
  - No worse than this.  baldguy   Aug-18-08 07:33 AM   #49 
     - With wind you get both  wtmusic   Aug-18-08 09:25 AM   #59 
        - Huh? The transmission lines are underground  Lorien   Aug-18-08 09:56 AM   #66 
           - I'm not aware of a windfarm in Morongo Valley  wtmusic   Aug-18-08 10:10 AM   #69 
  - 90 miles to work? if she moves think of all the gas she'll save. n/t  orleans   Aug-18-08 08:08 AM   #55 
  - I knew it...  MicaelS   Aug-17-08 08:08 PM   #39 
  - All those kooks who don't want turbines in their back yards  wtmusic   Aug-17-08 08:13 PM   #41 
  - If you don't want a wind turbine in your back yard...  yibbehobba   Aug-18-08 08:32 AM   #57 
     - I would agree with you, but she has a pretty stellar CV  wtmusic   Aug-18-08 09:30 AM   #60 
        - I live in Cambridge, UK.  yibbehobba   Aug-18-08 09:39 AM   #62 
  - It's SOOO predictable.  Odin2005   Aug-18-08 08:39 AM   #58 
  - It's the same element that are freaked out  snooper2   Aug-18-08 09:42 AM   #63 
  - They trap SUN DEMONS in the electric matrix.  baby_mouse   Aug-18-08 09:56 AM   #65 
  - Oh god where the fuck is my Stradivarius when I need it?...let's see  2KS2KHonda   Aug-17-08 08:11 PM   #40 
  - I have one too  Skittles   Aug-17-08 10:30 PM   #45 
  - "Wind Turbine Syndrome?"  Anexio   Aug-17-08 08:18 PM   #42 
  - The Danes have already installed wind turbines  GoneOffShore   Aug-17-08 10:19 PM   #44 
  - It's worse than the cell phone nuts.  yibbehobba   Aug-18-08 07:47 AM   #52 
  - It's curious, windmills have never been a problem before.  baldguy   Aug-18-08 07:27 AM   #48 
  - Oh geeze...What's next? Solar panel anxiety syndrome?  LibInTexas   Aug-18-08 07:52 AM   #53 
  - As the president of the local chapter of SPAS  Stuckinthebush   Aug-18-08 08:03 AM   #54 
  - NIMBY bullshit.  Odin2005   Aug-18-08 08:30 AM   #56 
  - The health claims are suspect  wtmusic   Aug-18-08 09:38 AM   #61 
  - oh. my. fucking. god.  enki23   Aug-18-08 10:06 AM   #68 
 

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