One of the interesting downsides is the harm that can come to you if your neighbor chooses to let them build. Apparently the new turbines could create exclusionary zones on YOUR property that will prevent you from building/improving your property in certain circumstances.
For safety, a zone the radius of 1.5x (I think... it was more than 1 but not more than 2) the height of the tower becomes a zone nobody can build on in case the turbine were to fall over. If that zone happens to cover part of YOUR property because the turbine is close enough to the property line, you can no longer improve your property even though you chose not to let them build on your property. So you want to put a minibarn up out back near the edge of your property? Or maybe a pool and pool house? Maybe not if your neighbor has a wind turbine nearby.
A fairly rare occurrence I presume, but still a kick in the teeth for someone who isnt receiving any compensation from the turbine owners. I wonder how long before a neighbor sues over this?
(cant find the original article about this, sorry)
Edit: to clarify, if your neighbor builds a 500' turbine 500' from your property line, you could lose the ability to build something up to 250' inside your property line.
One of the interesting downsides is the harm that can come to you if your neighbor chooses to let them build. Apparently the new turbines could create exclusionary zones on YOUR property that will prevent you from building/improving your property in certain circumstances.
For safety, a zone the radius of 1.5x (I think... it was more than 1 but not more than 2) the height of the tower becomes a zone nobody can build on in case the turbine were to fall over. If that zone happens to cover part of YOUR property because the turbine is close enough to the property line, you can no longer improve your property even though you chose not to let them build on your property. So you want to put a minibarn up out back near the edge of your property? Or maybe a pool and pool house? Maybe not if your neighbor has a wind turbine nearby.
A fairly rare occurrence I presume, but still a kick in the teeth for someone who isnt receiving any compensation from the turbine owners. I wonder how long before a neighbor sues over this?
(cant find the original article about this, sorry)
Edit: to clarify, if your neighbor builds a 500' turbine 500' from your property line, you could lose the ability to build something up to 250' inside your property line.
Where at and what are your experiences with it? Sound, flicker, vibrations, were you for or against? Land owner? pm me if you want.
East Central Wisconsin.
The sound is horrendous when it's windy.
The synchronized red flashing lights on top will drive you nutts.
No issues with vibrations although that might just be sound vibrations from when it's windy.
I am for when they are paying the lease but against as a general idea.
The turbines are sold to people as some sort of good thing for the environment but they aren't. They will never produce enough electricity to recover the costs of manufacture, construction and operation. To me that's a terrible use of valuable resources but because of government meddling in the market they steal from some people to give to those who make these eye sores.
I forget the exact cost estimates of each turbine but I think the number I remember was $3M per and then the lease and maintenance is added to that. And maintaining those things is a big job. One would think they just go up and that's that but not.
Then the other issue nobody wants to address is what happens after the useful life is over. The utility doesn't take them down. The land owner inherits them. What do I do with one of those towers, put a deer blind on top?
My theory is this. If the free market wouldn't build the things then it isn't a good idea. And the free market wouldn't build these things.
East Central Wisconsin.
The sound is horrendous when it's windy.
The synchronized red flashing lights on top will drive you nutts.
No issues with vibrations although that might just be sound vibrations from when it's windy.
I am for when they are paying the lease but against as a general idea.
The turbines are sold to people as some sort of good thing for the environment but they aren't. They will never produce enough electricity to recover the costs of manufacture, construction and operation. To me that's a terrible use of valuable resources but because of government meddling in the market they steal from some people to give to those who make these eye sores.
I forget the exact cost estimates of each turbine but I think the number I remember was $3M per and then the lease and maintenance is added to that. And maintaining those things is a big job. One would think they just go up and that's that but not.
Then the other issue nobody wants to address is what happens after the useful life is over. The utility doesn't take them down. The land owner inherits them. What do I do with one of those towers, put a deer blind on top?
My theory is this. If the free market wouldn't build the things then it isn't a good idea. And the free market wouldn't build these things.
I wonder if the county could pass an ordinance that requires the builder of these things maintain an escrow account (or whatever the appropriate legal/financial term is) that would cover the cost of demolition at the end of life?
It's not just the removal of the towers when they stop spinning that's an issue, it's also the power lines they have to build to move any electricity from where the pointless cyclopian pinwheels of tax credits are built and their market. I have a friend who's walnut farm was in the way and lost about 20 acres of mature trees to the utility company. Long after those lines go cold no one is going to come take them down...or give you back the easement. Sunzia out west wanted to run transmission lines through White Sands Missile Range...the Obummer maladministration wanted to let them.
...My theory is this. If the free market wouldn't build the things then it isn't a good idea. And the free market wouldn't build these things.
posting in political section since the topic of wind farms can get quite controversial and political. Who on INGO actually lives or has family that lives in an area that has a industrial Turbine wind farm and would like to discuss it with me?