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rbixby Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-10 09:33 AM
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23. I don't think its that much different
than the constant low hum of the freeway near where I live, or the frequent sound of planes flying over. You just learn to let it fade into the background. Everyone needs to make compromises and sacrifices sometimes in their lives for the common good, and most people just realize that.
Do you have a hard time listening to your refrigerator, or your furnace/air conditioner? Its those kind of 'white noise' type noises that are the quickest ones to fade into the background.
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  -'Whoosh' sound of wind turbines too loud for some Francesca9  Oct-05-10 10:58 PM   #0 
  - Nimby dumbasses n/t  Chulanowa   Oct-05-10 11:01 PM   #1 
  - Not Nimby. Banana.  A HERETIC I AM   Oct-05-10 11:04 PM   #3 
     - LOL! nt  blondeatlast   Oct-06-10 08:49 AM   #21 
     - Spot on  madokie   Oct-09-10 06:02 AM   #47 
  - Reactor down the road is very quiet and runs when there is no wind..  Pavulon   Oct-05-10 11:04 PM   #2 
  - And radioactive waste is also extremely quiet.  krispos42   Oct-06-10 12:07 AM   #5 
  - Silently rearranging DNA -- just like Blue Star Acid  Dogmudgeon   Oct-06-10 01:47 AM   #9 
  - Coal or Nuclear are required for base load generation.  Pavulon   Oct-06-10 07:32 AM   #12 
  - Then what do you recommend for load following?  ThomWV   Oct-06-10 08:53 AM   #22 
     - Renewables for non base load. Nuclear to cover what renewables can not(nt)  Pavulon   Oct-06-10 05:12 PM   #30 
        - Baseload is only needed when you use large scale centralized generation  kristopher   Oct-07-10 02:50 PM   #31 
        - How is it so possible for so many to not see that?  madokie   Oct-09-10 06:07 AM   #48 
        - It doesn't really work that way  XemaSab   Oct-07-10 10:42 PM   #40 
  - Nuclear power supporters have trust in the nuclear industry  kristopher   Oct-07-10 02:53 PM   #32 
  - most poisons work silently. nt  awoke_in_2003   Oct-06-10 12:15 AM   #7 
  - And leaves extremely toxic waste  Nostradammit   Oct-06-10 12:46 AM   #8 
     - No just Nevada, and we dropped real nuclear weapons on them  Pavulon   Oct-06-10 07:33 AM   #13 
  - And I literally have an airport in my back yard.  notadmblnd   Oct-05-10 11:23 PM   #4 
  - give me "whoosh" any day. nt  awoke_in_2003   Oct-06-10 12:14 AM   #6 
  - How many self righteous progressives live near a wind farm or would live next to a national airport  stray cat   Oct-06-10 06:53 AM   #10 
  - I have lived near wind farms.  LWolf   Oct-06-10 07:56 AM   #15 
  - Studies show that housing near wind farms increases in value compared...  kristopher   Oct-08-10 06:59 PM   #42 
  - Less than 9 miles from JFK here . .  annabanana   Oct-09-10 08:59 AM   #53 
  - Constant regular noise and vibration is terribly disruptive, even if you think you're ignoring it. I  Brickbat   Oct-06-10 07:11 AM   #11 
  - You're right...you think you don't notice it until  pipi_k   Oct-06-10 08:04 AM   #16 
  - i have a friend who lives in the country -- house is situated so that it feels very isolated, though  Hannah Bell   Oct-09-10 04:03 AM   #44 
     - It's even hard to get used to if someone has lived in a suburb  pipi_k   Oct-09-10 08:52 AM   #51 
  - I don't think its that much different  rbixby   Oct-06-10 09:33 AM   #23 
     - Health effects of constant noise and vibration aren't well studied, but there are some that link  Brickbat   Oct-06-10 10:12 AM   #24 
  - I don't sleep in my bedroom because it faces the I-15 freeway  itsrobert   Oct-06-10 07:44 AM   #14 
  - I used to live underneath the outbound flight path...  a la izquierda   Oct-06-10 08:12 AM   #17 
  - We get used to noises that occur regularly.  MineralMan   Oct-06-10 08:30 AM   #18 
  - Perhaps there is something wrong with the turbines.  MadHound   Oct-06-10 08:46 AM   #19 
  - +1  kristopher   Oct-07-10 02:57 PM   #33 
  - The traffic in front of my house is noisy too.  laureloak   Oct-06-10 08:47 AM   #20 
  - My dentist has windmills that don't make any noise.  Doremus   Oct-06-10 12:11 PM   #25 
  - Fossil fuels are too wasteful for me. n/t  alp227   Oct-06-10 02:41 PM   #26 
  - Jokes aside, I've heard they are pretty loud...  4_TN_TITANS   Oct-06-10 02:46 PM   #27 
  - a little noise today is SOOO much more important than trying not to fyck the future to death.  stuntcat   Oct-06-10 02:47 PM   #28 
  - My favorite thread EVAH on DU was a wind turbine thread where I thoroughly schooled an anti-wind  apocalypsehow   Oct-06-10 02:57 PM   #29 
  - Easy for you to say  RamboLiberal   Oct-07-10 03:27 PM   #35 
     - "Boo-hoo...mean 'ole clean energy makes me miss my beauty sleep! Boo-hoo!"  apocalypsehow   Oct-07-10 10:34 PM   #36 
  - Maybe some of those who live near wind farms have valid complaints  RamboLiberal   Oct-07-10 03:14 PM   #34 
  - I think we need to require that roads be locate no closer than 1.25 miles from any residence..  Fumesucker   Oct-09-10 08:55 AM   #52 
  - Yeah, because we should just keep building those coal plants -  donco6   Oct-07-10 10:38 PM   #37 
  - Maybe we can buy them off with Sun Chips in the old style biodegradable bags  Stinky The Clown   Oct-07-10 10:40 PM   #38 
  - Gimme a wind spill, which is common here in the form of hurricanes, before another oil spill.  AlabamaLibrul   Oct-07-10 10:41 PM   #39 
  - I can't stand the "whirr" of nuclear reactor intake valves  Canuckistanian   Oct-07-10 10:47 PM   #41 
  - that reminds me of the people  JesterCS   Oct-09-10 03:56 AM   #43 
  - Thats the sound of easy money for farmers!  B Calm   Oct-09-10 06:00 AM   #45 
  - Thats the sound of easy money for farmers!  B Calm   Oct-09-10 06:00 AM   #46 
  - Don't forget the pants that make that "whoosh" noise. nt  MellowDem   Oct-09-10 08:31 AM   #49 
  - They were built by GE not by the world leader in wind generators  Ichingcarpenter   Oct-09-10 08:40 AM   #50 
 

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