It’s one thing to hike within sight of these structures the size of a forty story building (and getting bigger every year). It’s another to live next to one. The cluster of human health problems associated with them is now called Vibro-Acoustic Disease and has caused more than one family to abandon their home, unable to sell it and unable to live in it.

Calling them ‘farms’ is an insult to those of use who live on farms and consider ourselves stewards of the land. Each ‘farm’ consists of miles and miles of forty foot wide construction roads slashed through the woods and fields. These things are huge industrial structures. And while you might find them pleasing to look at, they undeniably transform a pastoral landscape into an industrialized food chopper ready to mince raptors, bats, and migrating birds.

We rural areas already supply you urban folks with raw materials, most of your energy, and quiet places for you to vacation. We’ve given enough. If you want to avoid conservation or power plants in your neighborhood, fine, but don’t ruin what little peace and quiet we have left in the vain hope that you will somehow solve the energy crisis and global warming by filling the pockets of the fat cats. It aint’ gonna happen.

And in the meantime, the problem they are supposed to be solving gets worse and worse, while the money available to address the problem gets wasted.

As for the health problems - I’m not sure what Pat is talking about. I also would also like to compare the health impact with that of other power sources.

I know in CA they would have to conduct studies about bird flight patters before the turbines could go up. Usually it was just a matter of placing them at a height over the typical altitude of regional birds. I had never personally seen a bird hit a wind turbine, nor seen any dead birds at the base of one - so I would guess the method works at least to some degree.

http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/2007/06/30/7-reasons-to-take-a-summer-holiday-at-home/