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" You don't hear turbines in high wind. The developers count on the masking effect of the wind to cover the noise. They test their turbines in higher winds because the violations and sleep disruptions during low wind events. Certain low frequency noises cause organs in the body to vibrate, creating a host of health problems. People who pull off the road to listen are comparing apples and oranges - were you there 2 minutes or 24 hours a day, seven days a week, FOREVER - being subjected to the onslaught of noise for the rest of your lives when forced to live among these 400 foot tall industrial power plants dumped in the middle of quiet agricultural communities? Did you experience the stacking wave effects of multiple turbines operating simultaneously? Do you have any idea of what you're talking about - other than being a spokeperson to spread the company's misinformation on the violations likely to occur. Have you read the transcript of the zoning hearings where testimony is given by wind company experts about the violations which they testify will occur? "

" My wife and I pulled off hiwy 9 near Arrowsmith yesterday in three areas where we'd be closer to the turbines than when driving through towns with grain elevators. That, to check the noise in winds we considered "average" to "high." The blades were turning at about the same rate as we've seen many times as we passed going to Bloomington. We turned off our engine at three nearest the road. We could barely hear the wind across the blades of the turbine. In other words, the turbines are quieter than the wind and certainly much quieter than an operating grain elevator, trucks on the roads, combines in the fields and other noises we've adjusted to. Quieter than our refrigerators. Quieter than the winds through trees in towns and hedgerows in townships. Do grain elevators lower the value of homes? Do road noises? Does planting and harvesting near small towns and in townships lower the value of homesites? We don't want to see turbines blamed for the incompetence of decision makers and the ol' boy networks, do we? "