"Our milk comes from Contented Cows"

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day all

A few decades ago there was an advertisers' contest for catching jingles - and Carnation and Nestle milk companies were having a go at it with the above title as one of the jingles. Today it's the pro & anti-wind-farm lobbyists who claim and counter claim the as-yet-unproven supposed deleterious noise effects from the rotating blades.

All I can say is that these cows do not seem to mind their location .... they're Contented Cows !


exif- Panny FZ-300; 1/1000s x F4,0; ISO-100; lens at 1x zoom / 24mm FFequiv

ps- we in the motorhome touring Oz often stay overnight in the viewing carpark for these places because it's so quiet !! ... and the swooshing noise from the blades is 100 times quieter than the waves on our ocean beach, 250m away from home when we are at home

As always, feedback welcome
Phil

[Isac]

I'm not going to voice my opinion about wind turbines so I will say that the cows look very content indeed. It's amazing what the animals can adapt to in a short amount of time.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day mate
They are quite an engineering marvel really - a few yrs back when I stood at the base of one of these towers, it seemed as high as if it would touch the clouds! The base of the tower was about 6m / 20 ft across and it sat on a concrete base (now hidden under the grass) of about the size of a tennis court

The blades were 'whooshing' above us rotating at about 1 blade tip above us every 1/2-second or so and everything else was quiet. We could hear the cows and sheep in the paddocks below us quite clearly and road noise from trucks on the highway - that all came through - but the 'whoosh' was there all the time

I mention in my ps above about the ocean waves near our home - and often at night when the traffic noise from the highway a further 250m inland from our house (makes us in the middle between the ocean and the highway), then the ocean noise is always there and lulls people to sleep -- until the sirens from emergency vehicles tearing up the highway wakes us up again
Phil

[Isac]

You're lucky to have the ocean waves to listen to Phil - very therapeutic apparently.
I wasn't going to mention my views on the turbines, but what the heck ... they aren't going to stop using them and their numbers will increase exponentially over the coming years to the detriment of our planet.
I'm not a fan of the wind farms at all for many reasons and there are many studies done which prove that they are not as "Green" as we are lead to believe by those in the industries who are making trillions of dollars. They can actually increase the CO2 levels!
They kill millions of birds every year and I can't see that as a good thing. Interesting read, just one of hundreds. It's just my view so rant over.
Still a lovely photo though ...