The sound of wind farms 

JUST TELL ME WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE

This noise would make me move away.

7:30 You're welcome

Most ppl are like: UGHHH JUST CUT TO THE DAMN POINT…

This is not the sound of a wind turbine farm. This is the sound of ONE turbine. Nice try ARUP. I have been close to a turbine farm in Costa Rica. It is like being close to a highway.

I think the biggest reason so many people are bothered by wind turbines is that most of them live in rural areas and aren't used to constant noises. Even though the sound is barely perceptible, it seems worse when you're not used to hearing infrasound (technically feeling, as humans can't hear sounds below ~18 Hz). As someone who lives less than a mile from a regional airport, I'd kill to live somewhere where the only sounds I have to hear are birds, wind, and turbines.

it's 3am, how did i get here

I came here to listen to the wind turbines but the narrator wouldn't let me 😂

I'm watching the video like "BRO STFU I JUST WANNA HEAR A FUKIN WIND TURBINE!!!"

The video suggests you recorded the sound perpendicular to the length of the nacelle, instead of downwind, where the sound would be strongest.

Million dollar assesment and they still use Audacity, see dats opensource!!

I think this is missleading, although it seems properley recorded, the playback brings issues thus it is the infra sound from the mills causing problems and you can't playback these types of sounds om your phobe/tablet RU-vid device being used.

I wish they could just show me what it sounds like and then explain everything and not making me wait for 10 minutes.

This is not accurate. I live not far from wind farm and I hear constant buzzing noise, as if I was on a sea cruiser. It didn’t bother me at the beginning but after a while it gets to you. Additionally they measured and recorded one wind turbine. It is very seldom there is only one. On our closest wind farm there is 8 and often there are even more. I am going to move soon although there are people in our village who live here their whole life and it doesn’t bother them.

It almost sounds like a distant diesel locomotive from 1 km and 2 km.

The same birds noise we were hearing at 2000 meters

it doesn't have to be loud to be annoying. i can hear a factory at my farm that's like 5 kilometers away and it's a constant low-end hum that breaks the silence and annoys the hell out of everyone. i imagine this works out the same, or worse, because it's not a constant sound, it oscillates, which draws attention to it.

perfect video

how about measuring in front of the blades? What about low Frequency sound levels?

Thank you for this, needed a reference for how loud turbines can get for a project i'm working on!

The problem is the way of rating in decibel. These wind generator produce low frequency noise, it may not sounds loud but people can still feel them within miles.

A special foam cover was used to protect the microphone from wind noise and muffle the sound of those goddamn turbines

It would be interesting to have the sound of an oil derrick also, just for comparison.

I had a cooling fan on the top of my apartment 6 floor I living in 4:th. In certain places in my rooms I heard like a 30-40hz hum constant. You can't measure that in decibel.

This is a super neat video! What does a wind farm of 50+ sound like?

FINNALY not someone who just went to his editor and just pumped the sound up to 2k %

Roughly 3:13 is when it starts

I love how the corpo intro completely undermines the intent of the video.

The first thing I thought of after watching this, is "how come they didn't do the modelling in front of and behind the blades, and also were there are multiple turbines" seems logical to check out all the potential angles and real wind farms with multiple turbines.......It's interesting to note that city dwellers who are far from the blades chastise the rural dwellers generally speaking because like most people ..we are all for something like green energy (turbines) or nuclear or chicken farms...or you name it........as long as it's not our backyard.

Why you record always from lateral and not from behind the turbine orientation, facing the wind?? The wind moves the sound with it...

Too much explaining I just thought I would be the sounds not sound levels😂

Interesting they don't have the sound down wind from the turbine, in the direction their "air" is moving. And then you have when the bearings are going out. Always a "calming' noise that carries.

Sheer disappointment at the end of video be like: All you can here is whoosh whoosh at when the blades get past ya...

I regularly hiking hours near the Altamont Pass windfarm with 2MW turbines, the trail goes as close as 1300 ft (400 m), and that's about where the noise becomes similar to living under a big airport's glideslope. But at 4000ft (1+ km) the sound becomes negligible, and the sound of your AC or even a ceiling fan or a flapping flagpost cable will annoy your much much earlier. If one can't bear a noise of a ceiling fan in the night, their life was miserable even before windfarms.

Just gonna save anyone who looks this up some time. You don't hear shit

The moving elements of a wind turbine are what make them so much more productive that solar panels. Naturally since things are moving, the machine makes some noise. Gas turbines and old school diesel power generators make lots of noise locally, but it is dampened via soundproofing, and also, noise drops off with distance.

Why not record in the winddirection?

Ok now do it 1km from the wind farm, wind speed at optimal power generation speed using ultrasonic sensors that measure sound waves that are beyond the limits of hearing.

Fake news. They are doing this during non windy day. Theres a case in Australia where a wind farm was sued by a farmer (and won) whose house is a km away because he couldn’t sleep, saying the wind turbine sound like a train at night.

I think it’s a nice touch to the ambience.

My subdivision may be getting one near by. Unfortunately, they're probably be too far away from my house to hear them though.

Problem is with infrasons.

I wonder what Hydro Tasmania's bias is towards: probably increased usage of windmills. Even if not intentional, bias can significantly impact scientific study.

I like the sound of them

I can't here anything to be honest I live near a coal fired power station and it's much louder

The sound check should have been taken on the front of the turbine, not on its side LOL

Well...its not about the sound that you can hear, and at top from the side od wind turbine...Its about Low Freq sound going with the turbulent air from BEHIND the turbine and the ground vibrations

Nah. They're loud. WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH. And then the light flicker and dead birds...

Arup should put recording equipment behind the turbine, thats where all the noise is and will flow on for kilometres depending on wind. misrepresentation here. Watchout central highlands, your next!

Very interesting. I think they should be built within a kilometre of homes, unless the occupants have given full consent.

This is BS cuz I have a couple that are friends of mine that have wind turbines probably 100 yards from their house and you can hear them howl all the time. The reason I moved out of a town 22 years ago was for the quiet.

Uhh i never thought they are that loud. I really hate this constant background noise from the wind turbine.

Skip all the talking : 3:58

Was that Audacity? If so, that should tell you a lot about how good Audacity is.

kind of used to it...been flying YT-1300 light freighter [Bat Falcon].

Why is her voices EQ’d so loudly lowkey annoying lol

This "Sounds" like a sales pitch to me.

hummm maybe my speakers suck. But i driven by windfarms, parked my car and had a dinner. And they are much much much much louder than shown in this :/

Sounds are additive so be careful of interprerarion

I am all for renewable energy but this video is misleading. Lots of technical mumbo jumbo that does not mean much for the average person. The thing is this video failed to consider the sound from various angles. From experience in a wind farm near me, the sound is loudest BEHIND the blades and least audible edge on, like in this video. I filmed this video 10 years ago when the wind farm was brand new. The turbine in the video is a Siemens SWT-2.3-108. It is now 10 years old and likely noisier. This video was recorded about 150 meters away and with the simplest of setups it capture ambient noise and traffic. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6HPuvRBUm3M.html

Search RU-vid for a clip "Wind Turbine Sound : Son d’une Éolienne"

I live near a wind farm never heard a noise from them im sure oil drilling is alot noiser

what they wont tell you is the affects low frequencies can have on human health.

This literally could have been a 10 second video showing the sound. I didn't need unnecessary narration and background music.

sincerely i cant hear shit on any of them

Sounds like a small tardis.

Its still better than choking the earth to death

VESTAS V90 3.0 Megawalt wind turbine

Bird Genocide.

Ik

They sound better than a diesel truck

I didn't know they made noise...

just like the sound you made from slicing your ruler or stick fast, just swushh,

This is less likely to give you cancer than the sound of trumps voice.

So no noise :- P

Better than living next door to tradies making a racket all day.

Everything at 90 degrees on the direction of the wind. Why? Try it with the wind blowing against you.

Infrasound was not even measured. That is what hurts people and farm animals

why did i watch this? like, in it's entirety. the fu--?

Wow, a site where comments are actually allowed. You know how you'll win people over is just record the sound of the wind turbine from different distances. Instead of your highly technical format.

05:45 you’re welcome 🥰

Those blades are 44 meters what about blades that are a 100 meters

If you’ve ever stood next to one of these you know this is a gaht damn lie hahaha things are loud as fuck. Don’t let them play you, “acoustic engineers” fucked with it. Go stand next to one and tell me how your ears are after an hour lol

Ningun parque eolico tiene un solo generador. Normalmente instalan varios. Algunos parques eolicos cuentan con 20 o 30 de esos molinos girando. Asi que al ruido que hace uno solo de esos generadores debes multiplicarlo por 20 o 30. Ahi si que la cosa se pone molesta....

OMG it took 4 minutes just to start the sounds!! WHATS WITH THE PROPAGANDA!? I heard it at 500m. It was loud.

This is not relevant for other wind turbines. I lived off grid in Portugal and couldn't get used to the near permanent noise of 4 nearby wind turbines. It sounded like an jet plane coming over neither too low to be upfront but low enough to make you turn your head. Different shapes of blades might affect the noise output. The WHO has now recognised the noise (some) wind turbines make as a health hazard. A couple won in November 2021 financial compensation from a wind turbine corporation for the health issues they suffered caused by constant exposure to the noise they make.

wouldve made more sense to use text instead of talking for the entire video.... -_____- get on with it

The turbines are really quiet I couldn't hear anything at all the distances

Skip to 4:00

Stay Green

asmr on steroids

05:13 You're welcome

EXCELLENT Job of FILTERING OUT the NOISE of the GEARS CLASHING Together

Still not accurate, sorry. You did the recordings from one angle, what if you stand in front or in the back of them, the sounds are different. PLUS you only had the sound of one wind turbine and not, as what they want to build in my neighborhood, 5 of them. Is 5 times the same sound, lot louder. :)

City dwellers often live near highways or busy streets, which can be loud. I know how loud: I've lived near a major street and a mall for a few years. For over a decade I lived near a train yard. Train yards are quite loud too, making loud CRASHBANG noises at unpredictable intervals. You get used to it, to such an extent that after a while you don't even notice it, even when you're trying to sleep. My hearing is good for my age: I could hear the whine of a dying power supply for a sign when the technicians couldn't. For most of the video, I could not hear the wind turbines. When we got close enough for me to hear it I found the sound unremarkable, not quite soothing, but not aggravating. If I had a house of my own, and enough cash, I'd have solar panels and a nice wind turbine of some kind. If it were an option (legally, it isn't) I'd 100% have a personal thorium nuclear reactor or something, done right they can be incredibly safe and nigh-impossible to screw up. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that wind power has NO drawbacks, because it does have a few. I'm just pointing out that some of the negative comments I'm seeing below... just don't make sense to me.

hahaha, doing one turbine. Winds farms with rows of them are noisy, full stop. I'm not against them, but they should be out in the weeds or in ocean far from everyone, then they're fine.

Now look up windmill shadows in houses, it’s like living in a hypnotizing house

BRO why are people complaining

So almost nothing

we don't want in so much detail