Some people don’t like windmills. They disrupt the skyline. They’re a hazard to bird migration. They’re too noisy.
They’re not a novelty anymore, there are windfarms everywhere, so maybe they do disrupt the skyline. They probably are a hazard to migrating birds, but so is everything else we do. At least a windmill is a moving target as opposed to a tall building with windows for birds to fly into.
Anyway, we were driving past a windmill farm out on the coastal plain and decided to stop and listen to see what they sounded like up close. We took this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUShQ3cLzbo
There is a steady powerful whooshing noise of the blades going round. I probably wouldn’t want to live directly under it. Given a choice between windmills or a smokestack though, I think I’d take the windmills.
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