Wind turbines

You're right but I also doubt they'd build one that close to a house anyway.

cptusa, that shadow effect would depend on so many factors and definitely distance from ones residence is one but some of those towers and the ultimate height of the blades are insane on some of those installations. Lets say the tower was directly north of your yard, then its physically impossible to have shadow effect from the sun at your latitude but lets say your bedroom window faces north and that flashing light comes right into your window all night every night and you like having your window open at night during the summer ( I don't have air con so its a must I have windows open to cool the house off ). Ok so lets say instead the tower is to the west, south/west and is one of the tall towers with an ultimate height that equals half the distance that the tower is from your  yard, depending on the time of year the sun would be low enough to have the blades in between you and the sun and would cause that effect. I've only been close to ones in Montana and during the day in the summer and from that view point it was a "wow factor" and in my vehicle driving by them and did stop but it was not very windy so they were turning slow so could not hear anything. A person would have to go to a spot by an existing tower where the angles would be the same as a proposed tower and get some feel for it. I have a feeling the methods the companies use to get the approval for a location they would like is underhanded, the question is why ?, the article I posted up a bit ago sheds some light on that I feel when there is an issue and the resulting drop in property values and infringement upon ones daily life if there are noise or light issues.

I never realized how big those wind turbines can be. Was on hwy 17 south to Provost other day. Never knew there was a wind farm couple miles west of 17. Even from that distance they look massive. I’ve never been around them but I think I’d sooner have them on my land than those solar panels. Now there is an abject waste of good land. Maybe in the dessert but on ground capable of producing something they suck. I’ve seen some cases where the panels are placed on high stands to allow grazing animals to manage the weeds but most cases nothing is grazed or farmed and they use a bunch of herbicides to keep it dead. It would be more beneficial for everyone in my opinion to have the panels up out of the way which would shade the ground a bit and allow for grass to flourish from the shade in drought just like a bush pasture but no trees to compete with the grass. I don’t think a lot of these clean energy schemes are viable on their own merit but I like science and innovation. The holy grail for me is a cheaper and more sustainable method to produce nitrogen fertilizer. Second would be recapturing phosphorus from waste and developing our domestic sources as well. We can slog on windmills and solar panels all day and whether they’re good or bad but ultimately we need to develop all the time. Was said hundreds of years ago in the NE US they were concerned about running out of firewood as forests were running out. It was a godsend when they discovered coal and later petroleum. It’s all about energy security in North America and looking ahead hundreds of years or we end up like Europe being in the pickle they are because environmental loons killed coal and nuclear power generation and oil exploration and opted to import energy from Russia. We need a mixed basket of energy and fertilizer sources to make us resilient and sustainable for years to come.

Talking 500-600' tower with 120' blades here I think.