alt Hacker NewsCompared to solar, they are kind of noisy though. If you are used to not hearing the constant traffic "rumble" that exists almost everywhere, they add quite a lot of "rumble" themselves.
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One time I drove up to the very base of a ~2MW wind turbine.
Couldn't hear anything besides the road several hundred metres away.
Which is why you put them in the sea or in places with sparse population.
That isn't true. We have several turbines near us. One just across the street. Even on days without traffic noise, we can't hear them.
Are they? I haven't noticed the sound myself, although I don't live next to windmills and just travel in areas with wind power from time to time... I also grew up next to train tracks and now live next to an interstate near an airport so may have a high tolerance for background noise!
Trump also said solar is bad.
What's the closest you've lived to a windfarm?
I've lived within 500 meters of a pretty large one and the highway more than a kilometer away from where I lived was far more noisy than the turbines.