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- moojj, on 10/11/2007, -2/+69The only noise "Traffic lights" make would possibly be the light humming of electricity. I guess that's why the article referred to "Light traffic" instead. ;)
- BufordT, on 10/11/2007, -6/+70Saving $330 per month!! Jesus, my entire electric bill every month is $120 tops.
- aussieNickuss, on 10/11/2007, -5/+63Its just a case of stupid NIMBY's (Not In My BackYard).
- reastes, on 10/11/2007, -7/+39Wonder if the neighbors could stop the spinning with glue.
Seriously though, good on him. I'm thinking of getting my roof solar paneled actually. - wonderworm, on 10/11/2007, -7/+38By default every new house should come with 2 small windmills attached to the roof. They should be thought of like a chimney and normal part of a home. The US government should be paying builders to install these windmills for free on ALL HOMES so we don't have to give all our money to Middle Eastern terrorist countries anymore. But no, Bush prefers to spend 8.7 Billion per month replacing exploded humvees and buying gas (from the middle east) for our massive war machine.
If the American government simply paid to install windmills on everyones house and provided a $10,000 hydrogen car credit to manufacturers, we would never ever buy a dime of foreign oil ever again and violent religious fanatics the middle east would go poor again because no one would need their black sludge.
Problem solved. - ZealVD, on 10/11/2007, -0/+30Maybe they'd complain less if he gave them electricity from his windmill at $1 a month
- consoneo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29If this guy were my neighbor, I'd probably ask him if he'd give me a discount on one!
- fpcyber, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25Good, make him move, wait till the resale value of the neighborhood goes down, buy it all. Make a Wind farm, next thing you know you are swimming in a pool of money.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -6/+23Holy crap...$340/month for that little house? He would have been far better off replacing the HVAC and actually putting in some insulation.
- sonaro, on 10/11/2007, -16/+32"Mr. Mercurio’s neighbors Patricia Caplicki and John Miller say in the lawsuit, in a 14-mile-per-hour wind, the three fiberglass blades produce noise greater than 50 decibels, the rough equivalent of light traffic or a noisy refrigerator."
A traffic light or noisy refrigerator? I wonder how loud it actually sounds in person compared to air conditioners which are pretty loud, especially the central units that sit on the side of the house. I've never heard a traffic light or refrigerator being that loud before. - ProvidenceCrow, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16I live about 15 miles from LBI, and i do work in beach haven a lot, and while i have not seen this particular house, i guarantee that the noise is not really a factor. At least not this time of year. It is benny season on the jersey shore and it sucks. I guarantee the main reason that there is a problem is because of just the general mindset of LBI residents. They hold themselves as basically gods gift to life, and are all willing to pay extremely high prices for anything. So some guy finds a way to avoid the already extremely high priced jersey electric, and it basically shows that not all LBI residents arent multi trillionaires who are better than everyone else, and thats why they want it taken down. Not beacuse the turbine itself looks bad, but it makes someone on the island look like a cheap bastard in their minds.
Oh and since someone will ask what a Benny is, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_%28slang%29
Only like 3 months til they leave - mississippiman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15hmm, well at almost $4000 a year savings i'd say a little under 5 years. Which all said ain't that bad
- honkeybot5k, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18Sorry man, I understand where you're coming from, but this is the future . This ain't Burger King son, you can't always have it your way.
- Magiclad, on 10/11/2007, -6/+20This guy has it right. I would put up with a little background noise. His neighbors are a bunch of self-centered gits. I wonder how they survive cities...
- kindrobot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Way too many selfish pricks in this world.
- ArmyOfFun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12I'd trade my neighbors for this guy. I've got retards that mow their lawns nearly every other day, use weed whackers the other ones and leaf blowers every damn day. Then there's the guy with the hot rod who thinks working on his car means revving the ***** thing for an hour straight. Not to mention his noisy as ***** diesel truck.
The sound of a noisy refrigerator? Yes please. I really need to move. - washingtonydc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12FTA
“People always say, ‘Not in my backyard, not in my backyard,’ ” he said. “I want to flip it around. It should start in my backyard.” - jdwires, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13He should just built a second one and let his neighbors in on power. I bet if they were saving a thousand bucks a year or more, they wouldn't be complaining.
- kindrobot, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Actually, NIYBY. Nimbys are never really nimbys. It's never what's in their back yard, they're worried about what's in yours and that sucks.
- shoelace414, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Actually it's NIMNBY (Not In My Neighbors BackYard) :)
- bobdotcom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Meh, if i was this guy, i'd be filing suit against my neighbors and the city. The city let you build it, so if they shut you down they should have to pay you back for it, since its their mistake that cost you the money. And the neighbors, if the city lets you keep it, should have to pay court costs, cuz he's old and is spending his retirement to protect his rights, jerks
- wacki, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10There are a ton of quiet wind turbines. This is one of my favorite designs:
http://logicalscience.blogspot.com/2007/01/quietrevolution-another-small-wind.html
some others:
http://logicalscience.blogspot.com/2006/11/loopwing-wind-turbine-loopwing-is-new.html
http://logicalscience.blogspot.com/2006/12/aeroturbine-benefits-of-this-device.html - pr0t0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10If this guy were my neighbor, I'd ask him to help me build my wind turbine.
- sonaro, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14Damn it! :-)
- mynameistim, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12new jersey sucks.
- shellacked, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Welcome to the land of the formerly free and home of the moderately brave
- Antialias, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I run everything on electric at my house(1300 square feet) and my average monthly bill for the year is around $160 a month. That's with 4 computers in the house running 24/7.
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Go look at this site: http://www.dsireusa.org/
Has all kinds of grants, loans, tax breaks by the fed and state governments. When I get the money, I'm likely going to do some photovoltaic shingles. - MeMongo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8How do you pull that off? Do you have a bunch of extension cords snaking into your neighbors house?
- ripple123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Well, going on the title of the story, id say around 5. Wow yeah. how stupid can you get.
/sarcasm - kindrobot, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11What the hell is wrong with flying an American flag? Not everyone who loves their country is a "I hate everything that makes us human" ultra-right, ultra-religious nutjob.
- Shaggy63, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9For all you people digging down the comments about how good this is STFU. Listen we all need to become a little more self seficeint. I have a large garden in my yard, right behind me is a subdivision. They complain. I tell em to ***** off. My yard I will do what I want.. Let em sue me. My 2 year old son that has pku gets most his food from that garden. I would love to put up a windmill in my yard. Too bad its a damn flight path.
- tnvwboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7How many neighborhoods are really that quiet to start with? At least it would be a regular even sound. It'd become white noise in no time. The neighbors are just being jack asses.
- Antialias, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Um, no actually he can't do what he wants. There are city ordinances that say what you can and can't do. Granted in this case, the sound doesn't seem like it would be loud enough to violate any laws, but you certainly can't "do whatever you want" just because it's your property.
- Smiths, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9He's got 56 solar panels, a windmill, and still paying money every month for power! Hydroponic grow lights...?
- wonderworm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7It's extremely easy. 1 thick insulated wire runs to your power meter where there is an adapter. There are no issues with adding electricity to your home. Electricity is electricity whether it comes from a battery, a windmill, solar panels, or from the far away Electric company.
- tnvwboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Too bad his retirement is almost ate up. He could give up this fight and then import a Windmill from the Netherlands and plop that down in some neighborhood. See how they like THAT! If they think his little wind generator was loud, wait till they hear that WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH.
- ProvidenceCrow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7its Long Beach Island, they dont want cheap anything there. The type of people that live on the island are the type who will shop around for a product and find the highest price just so they can brag how much they spent on said item.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8It's all good and well that he's seeking out alternative methods for power, but, considering the windmill only provides for a quarter of his needs, it equates out to more like 80 bucks a month (960 a year). Attach that onto the 15000 price tag (I'm not sure if he got a reduced price since it's his business), and it doesn't seem like he really went about things the best way, since his neighbors also hate him now. Maybe he should have just bought a few more solar panels.
- geekworking, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7This area is all beach houses. Many are seasonal and run everything on electric (heat, hot water, A/C, etc). For these houses, electric is all of the energy costs.
- Gaki, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5So, what you are saying, then is that you DO have an issue with someone saving money on electricity, specifically when they use a wind turbine to do it. That rules out a major source of almost free energy for anyone living next to you. You feel you have the right to restrict how they save energy, especially when no noise ordinance was breached?
- akatherder, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I am very environmentally complacent (i.e. I don't click on the treehugger.com links most of the time). But it's really frustrating when people try to make a dent in their energy usage and get roadblocked. The first thing I thought of when I read this was the guy who got in a bunch of ***** for not paying the petro tax since he was filling his car with vegetable oil.
- ibjhb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Yeah, but they could prohibit him from running it. Or enact some noise ordinance on wind turbines.
Also, you can't just build a 50 story building in a neighborhood and put an antenna on top and claim that you're allowed to keep the building. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Dude I live in Bellevue and the cheapest electric bill I see from PSE is $30. Don't tell me Seattle City Light is that cheap. Are they billing the homeless people fot the street lights in Pioneer Square at that rate?
- MeMongo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5If they really want cheap electricity, they can get a windmill and solar panels too.
- SteelChicken, on 10/11/2007, -5/+10moving wind makes noise, PERIOD
go back to school - SuperCUBE, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5He obviously uses enough of it to share some.
- Antialias, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6You have no idea how the real world works. Just because you own property doesn't mean you can do what you want with it. That isn't the way this country works.
- orlyfactor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5$15/month? You see out east, we have things like TVs, air conditioners...lights. You might want to look into it.
- vfrex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yeah $330 a month is ridiculous...not to mention he took care of 3/4 of his power issue by installing solar.
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