... two things:

(a) See: a report by the United Kingdom Noise Association on wind turbine noise, ending with the recommendation of a minimum 1 mile setback from residences (following the recommendation of France's National Academy of Medicine). However, even this 1 mile is not far enough, as Dr. Pierpont shows.

(b) I urge you to contact Jack Sullivan at (518) 483-1122 (home) for help with your various town and county boards. Jack is invaluable in this regard. Visit Nina Pierpont's website at www.ninapierpont.com and go to Articles by other authors. Scroll down to Malone: The town that booted out the wind bums (a paraphrase). Read Jack's "to whom it may concern" letter. (You are welcome to circulate this widely, including reprinting it widely, so Jack tells me. That's why he wrote it!)

You will want to give Jack's letter to your town supervisor and town board members.

Jack is a Malone Town Councilman. He's also a MS in physics (Cornell University). He knows his stuff. He knows wind energy issues, unlike most of the nitwits on most town boards. He's read stacks of documents, together with having devoured a physics text (yeah, all the calculus and physics formulae -- but, remember, he's a physicist) on wind energy. He's attended many meetings on wind energy, both pro and con. This guy could teach a seminar on wind energy. Anyhow, Jack can speak to your skeptical town (county) board members as an equal, a peer -- as a municipal official, just like them. Whereas these guys won't talk to me and to you, they will talk to Jack. He begins by telling them that he speaks for a township which unanimously (read that marvelous word again, unanimously!) voted against wind energy. I mean: both the Planning Board and the Town Board. Not a dissenting vote. If that ain't definitive, what is?

Jack's a powerful force in our campaign. Use him! He's getting calls from throughout New York State and, now, Ontario, Canada. By rights, he should be getting calls from around the world!

Call him at (518) 483-1122. He's a nice man. He will gladly talk to you. Tell him I sent you (we're friends).

Calvin