Would you agree to have a windturbine in your neighborhood

[Joseph C.]

Evolution will take care of the birds. Only the ones smart enough to avoid those mean ol nasty blades will reproduce.

Survival of the strongest/smartest.

The dinosaurs will rule the world again.

[www.recumbents.com]

We had a university owner coal fired power / heat plant near us when I was a kid in the 1960s. On snowy mornings the snow would be grey with ash from the power plant. Coal is about the cheapest and dirtiest power that is available. Just look at those pictures of Bejing.

-Warren.

[Xanda2260]

Never understood the whole 'wind turbines are ugly' thing. I think they look cool, defo nicer than a power station. While I can see how the sound could be annoying if you live next to it, these big turbines are generally sited away from homes (at least here). There's a petition in my town to have 2 of the big turbines removed (usual complaints, largely invalid), and the funny thing is, most of the complaints come from a housing estate that was built AFTER the turbines. Why the hell would you buy a house near a turbine, and then moan about it!!?! It's like the people who moan that the road they live on has too high a speed limit and needs to be reduced to reduce noise / increase safety for their pets or kids. Why did they buy a house on a high speed road? (understandable if road was upgraded later, obviously).

I live opposite a school and often get asked how I can live with the school-run mums parking all down the street. My answer is usually that I bought the house knowing full well there was a school there, and what the traffic is like. It doesn't bother me as I'm a teacher myself and am usually at work when the traffic issues arise.

[scriewy]

noise ? bhaaa stop being spoiled, i fall asleep while workers play in the street with jackhammers, or TV in the background or 30 meters from a railroad.

lets say those that don't care about environment, at least think about you electric bill, with turbines you'll pay 10 times less if not more, the maintenance is dirt cheap, and that's all to it.
you don't even need a private company, you build the turbines from gov budget, cos that's something the gov was suppose to do decades ago, but people are unknowledgeable and give a rats ass about things, easily distracted by societies smoke blown up their hinies.
only thing we should do is solar, wind, and sea turbines working from waves bidirectional blades that were invented in 70s by some european dude, until we get some alien tech.

any 1 knows what is called the affect when pressure changes near high structures like skyscrapers and that leads to NON STOP wind, i don't get how dumb people are, go and install a gazillion of turbines between high buildings, or just build tall structures without interior to create those pressure changes and stock piles of turbines all around'm, WTF no 1 does that.

my PC cooling fans make more noise than turbines.

[bowlofsalad]

Thorium!!!

L.F.T.R

Bingo.