Warren Buffett is spending billions to make Iowa 'the Saudi Arabia of wind'

Re:Warren Buffett is spending billions to make Iowa 'the Sau... by CivBase on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @11:37AM (#21922281)

I live in the Des Moines metro and most of the turbines are in rural areas, so I can't really speak to living around them.

As for the few turbines in the urban areas, they're completely unnoticable. They're silent and just blend into the background.

The only thing I could maybe see as annoying is the red flashing lights they use to help aircraft see them at night. The flashing is at least synchronized so there isn't a constant twinkling effect.

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Re:Warren Buffett is spending billions to make Iowa 'the Sau... by froindt on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:00PM (#21922490)

>The only thing I could maybe see as annoying is the red flashing lights they use to help aircraft see them at night.

I'm also from Iowa. It's a really eerie effect driving through a wind farm in the pitch dark! I noticed it most recently on 80 near Newton when they put in a wind farm in the last couple years.

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