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How noisy is a wind farm?

The Telegraph · 348.7K views · 2011-07-06 · 1:33

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A two-minute Telegraph report that takes a decibel meter to a wind farm and nearby residential areas to measure how loud turbines are compared with everyday noise.

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HN cites it in wind-power debates as measured evidence that turbine noise is low relative to ambient or road noise.

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justin66 · 2025-10 · Reference

This was interesting. [VIDEO] The turbines I saw in Iowa weren't loud enough to drown out distance sounds of the highway. I didn't hear them at all, but I guess there's also tinnitus to be contended with...

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maccard · 2023-10 · Reference

How close are you talking? Here's [0] a video where someone goes out and gets a decibel meter to show that living near a road is _way_ more disruptive than living near a wind turbine. This is from over a decade ago. Modern farms are being put 300+ metres away from the nearest houses, where they should be 30-40dB or so [1] [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]

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Calvin02 · 2022-08 · Reference

I was curious about the sound impact and found these two videos: 1) [LINK] , 2) [VIDEO] . The first video has pretty sound (pardon the pun) methodology. Findings: Unless you're within 200m of a turbine, the background ambient sounds are louder than the sound of the turbine. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

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