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Falmouth Wind Turbine Noise At 1600 Feet 52 dBA FYI
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This is a comparison of two Vestas wind turbines in order for people to get an idea what the residents of Falmouth, Massachusetts have been living with for seven years. Some of these residents live as close as 1200 feet from Vestas wind turbines generating 110 decibels of noise taking health and property rights
A. Byron, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin - (video below) This project is located along the Niagara Escarpment in Eastern Wisconsin and includes two Vestas model V47-660 wind turbines and a capacity of 1.3 MW.
The video shows what it sounds like to hear a 103.5 decibel Vestas V-47-- 1600 feet from a home. The noise reading is between 50 to 52 dBA.
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B. Falmouth, Massachusetts -This project is located in a residential town and includes two Vestas model V82-1.65 wind turbines and a capacity of 3.3 MW. Triple the size of the Wisconsin turbines.
The Falmouth wind turbines Vestas V-82 turbines generate 110 decibels of noise. The picture shows homes on Black Smith Shop Road around 1200 feet from Falmouth Wind 1
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On a decibel scale, the difference between 103.5 decibels and 110 decibels is double to the human ear.
FYI the homes around the Falmouth, Massachusetts wind turbines at 1600 feet can exceed the noise reading above 50 dBA.
The Cape Commission in 2011 changed its model by law for wind turbines larger than a single 660-kilowatt turbine to a noise setback of 10 times the diameter of the turbine blades
The diameter of the Falmouth Vestas V-82 blades the is around 280 feet .
The setbacks to a Vestas V-82 wind turbine today using the Cape Cod Commission noise setbacks is 2800 feet.
Note # A 1.65 Megawatt wind turbine is three times the size of a 660 Kilowatt wind turbine. 1000 Kilowatts equal 1 Megawatt
Falmouth residents should be made aware what their neighbors have been living with for 7 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoVKP0G_f8M
Wind Turbine Noise At 1600 Feet
Wind Turbine noise at 1600 feet
Industrial wind turbine noise recorded from the porch of a home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in February of 2009.
