Hi there. NIMBY here. We have a few of the damn things in my neck of the woods and aesthetically, I hate the bastards. They are just huge(350-380 ft. high) and so, so very out of scale to everything in the farmlands surrounding them (average barn building=60 ft high, average mature hardwood tree=60 to 80 ft high) that from 5 or ten miles away they don't look so bad but to have one actually in your own back yard they are,to my eyes, a monstrosity. If we've got to have them, then let's put them in urban areas. Hell, it's ugly there already. Maybe we could run some on the Mall in DC. With the abundance of strong winds emanating from nearby they should function very well.

In our state there are six such projects. 3 met with little or no NIMBY opposition ,and three with strident opposition, to the extent that one of these was eventually abandoned prior to construction.

With respect to noise, they are supposed to run at no more than 50 decibels,but that is measured at a distance of 1000 ft., which means up close, they aren't something you would want to try to sleep thru (or play acoustically under).If all are operational they should provide a whopping 0.14% of our state's yearly energy needs.

Beauty is in the eye... so they say. I find them, like cell phone towers and gravel pits, to be an abomination upon the face of the earth. Then again, I aint much to look at either and yet my wife hasn't complained too much in 29 years. I suspect in both cases it's all a matter of how much ugliness one is willing to tolerate.

My best to you, BI