Anyone know anything about domestic windturbines?

[gawdi]

I've just had notifcation of a planning application that could effect my property...... House who's back garden in near the front of my property wants to build a wind turbine.....

I've no objection in principal.... but have a concern about the noise they can generate.......... anyone green enuff to know anything about these wind turbines?

[SGS]

It really depends upon the size. The house up the lane here has a HUGE one and that it quite noisy but I think you can only have certain sizes with certain properties. We are having 2 installed here (one for the house and one for the annex) in the new year.

[JT]

http://www.nrel.gov/learning/images/photo_13890.jpg

Just the view you want from your bedroom window

[redwhiteandblue]

I'd swap that view for the one I've got at the moment, it's got blue sky in it.

[SmithsMedia]

they are in the process of changing the laws so you do not need planing permission - I heard a feature on radio 5 about it some weeks back.

A official from the government was statting if you can put up a satellite dish without planing then you should be allowed to put a small domestic windmill on your house.

[gawdi]

Just had a quick look at a few sites - B&Q now sell them and the info they have says the model they sell has a noise level of 33dba at a wind speed of 5m/s and a noise level of 52 dba at a windspeed of 7 m/s.....
I read that 55dba is the equivalent of a car going past you at 55mph...... this turbine will be about 40ft from my bedroom window....
I feel a possible planning objection going in.........

[dvtimes]

Its unlikly you will notice the noise.

The noise you refer to is at max speed, ie a windy day. In other words the wind will be loader than the windturbine.

[SmithsMedia]

I've just had notifcation of a planning application that could effect my property...... House who's back garden in near the front of my property wants to build a wind turbine.....

I've no objection in principal.... but have a concern about the noise they can generate.......... anyone green enuff to know anything about these wind turbines?


Just a thought say you are OK to allow providing they provide you with power too :-)

[gawdi]

Its unlikly you will notice the noise.

The noise you refer to is at max speed, ie a windy day. In other words the wind will be loader than the windturbine.

That depends... I live in the country.. with very little background noise....... so whilst in a town with some background noise, then the any noise a turbine makes is absorbed in the background noise... in the country things are very different....as without absorbtion then a noise can become very distinctive and annoying...........

[dvtimes]

That depends... I live in the country.. with very little background noise....... so whilst in a town with some background noise, then the any noise a turbine makes is absorbed in the background noise... in the country things are very different....as without absorbtion then a noise can become very distinctive and annoying...........

why not ask him the brand. it may be very quet.

the thing is, in a few years more and more houses will get them as fuel costs go up, and the cost of these come down.

[Rosie]

We've got about a billion wind turbines in this part of Denmark coz it's very flat - personally I think they're beautiful things doing a marvellous job - I'd sooner wake up to fields of those than a dirty great power station belching smoke.

We have planning permission for a windturbine here if we want one, and obviously the proceedure will differ from country to country - but basically we'd put one up and then within a couple of months the local council would take noise readings from ajoining properties to make sure any noise it generated was at acceptable levels. Certainly I do know that the more modern ones are a hell of a lot quieter than the older ones.

[ristac]

I live in the East Midlands on the edge of town and I have been told that as we are in a residential area one of the types sold in B&Q would generate enough power to keep a radio going, nothing more. We would need a much larger one for anything else so although the B&Q ones look promising they are if you live in the Countryside

[fredicus]

I hear the canny Scots are buying more baked beans ..