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San Diego's backcountry fights wind turbines
It appears that you would benefit tremendously by becoming acquainted with the work of Dr. Robert McCunney of MIT and European studies that concluded that a small percentage of people reported being annoyed by sound levels of up to 35 dB. These adversely affected folks had a thread of commonality. A 2009 cross-sectional study conducted in the Netherlands, showed that among 2,000 people living within a mile and a half of wind turbines, people who reported being annoyed by the sound of the turbines also reported disliking the turbines for other reasons: aesthetics, lack of economic benefits such as lower utility rates, etc. Also, a Swedish study in 2007 interviewed 750 people living at least 1,968 feet from wind turbines, and that study found that “those who had an unfavorable attitude toward wind turbines were over 13 times more likely to report being annoyed by [the noise].”— October 11, 2013 8:26 a.m.