Since this is posted at THonline.com I won’t rewrite it but just give you a couple of highlights to see if you are interested in reading more about the reaction to a proposed vertical wind turbine farm in the Cuba City area.

As with all new things, and since we have been using wind energy for only a thousand years or so it must be considered new by many, there are proponents and opponents to any proposal. Also like any normal proposal people come up with valid and absurd reasons for doing or not doing anything. A vertical wind turbine farm proposal is no different.

It seams though that one of the biggest issues associated with a vertical wind turbine farm is low frequency noise and wind blade flicker. You see as a horizontal vertical wind turbine blade turns during the day it cast a moving shadow. This moving shadow is called wind blade flicker.

If you put your attention on this flickering shadow for long periods of time it may cause some people to have a sick stomach, headaches and other uncomfortable fillings. The thing is though this filchering shadow from the vertical wind turbine blades is only on your house or property for a short period of time in the early morning or late afternoon and shouldn’t pose any problem for you at all.

Think of it like this, if the room you spend most of you time in during the day just happens to have one or two windows on the side of the house facing toward the vertical wind turbine where the blade shadow would fall directly on your window, you will notice it during that part of the day. If the shadow is coming from any other direction there is no way you will notice unless you look for it.

Another way of putting it is “if you want to find something to bitch and moan about you will and there is nothing in this world that will stop you. If you want to find a way to be sick and seek pity from others you will and there is nothing in this world that will stop you”.

The moral of this story as far as I am concerned is “If you look for crap you will find it, if you look for gold you will find that as well”. You just have to decide what to look for.

You can read the story at THonline.com.

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Video depecting noise and shadow of a large vertical wind turbine.

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