Do you live inside an industrial wind farm? I do. I live within the Forward-Invenergy project. It is a tremendous invasion of our life style and a horrible happening to our area. My wife, our 13-year-old son and I have experienced headaches, nausea, light headedness, lack of sleep because we hear them in all rooms of our house, ringing, crackling and buzzing in the ears, anger, anxiety and generally being tense due to the constant sound like that of a jet flying over or like the thumping of your heart if you listened in a stethoscope or like the sound of a Chinook helicopter.

I have memory and motivation problems that I did not have in the past. A friend has shadow flicker that is like a person turning the light switch on and off which takes 42 minutes to cross his house. I have five turbines within three-quarters of a mile of my house. One is 1,560 feet and another 2,480 feet. At times, I hear them equally and often inside our house. Would a city planner allow an industrial park in a residential area? I don't think so yet our government agencies are allowing industrial wind turbines close to homes. If you do believe in global warming think of the carbon foot print caused by the energy used to build the access roads, widening of local roads, 250 worker vehicles going to and from the job and all the driving between turbines daily, cranes and excavation equipment fuel, farmland destroyed or taken out of use, energy to crush all the aggregate for the roads, 300 to 500 cubic yards of concrete in the tower base, 55,000-plus pounds of rebar in the base, approximate 395,000 pounds of steel above the base (the tower) and many things I have not accounted for. Also consider the terrible inefficiency (28 percent to 30 percent) of the turbines generating capability. Would you buy a furnace for you home that is 30 percent efficient? If we really need industrial wind turbines where people live they need to be at least 1 mile from homes, 1,000 feet from property lines and not more than 35 decibels of sound from a residence or other public buildings.

I have memory and motivation problems that I did not have in the past. A friend has shadow flicker that is like a person turning the light switch on and off which takes 42 minutes to cross his house. I have five turbines within three-quarters of a mile of my house. One is 1,560 feet and another 2,480 feet. At times, I hear them equally and often inside our house. Would a city planner allow an industrial park in a residential area? I don't think so yet our government agencies are allowing industrial wind turbines close to homes. If you do believe in global warming think of the carbon foot print caused by the energy used to build the access roads, widening of local roads, 250 worker vehicles going to and from the job and all the driving between turbines daily, cranes and excavation equipment fuel, farmland destroyed or taken out of use, energy to crush all the aggregate for the roads, 300 to 500 cubic yards of concrete in the tower base, 55,000-plus pounds of rebar in the base, approximate 395,000 pounds of steel above the base (the tower) and many things I have not accounted for. Also consider the terrible inefficiency (28 percent to 30 percent) of the turbines generating capability. Would you buy a furnace for you home that is 30 percent efficient? If we really need industrial wind turbines where people live they need to be at least 1 mile from homes, 1,000 feet from property lines and not more than 35 decibels of sound from a residence or other public buildings.

I was naive when talk of wind turbines came to our area. I trusted the elected officials of the town and county and the state's public service commission. That was a terrible mistake. If you allow large industrial limits closer than the set backs I mentioned above you will regret it. It will divide your community.

Gerry Meyer