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I actually have 3 windmills in my back yard (the local industrial estate across the busy through-road)

You never hear them and hardly ever notice them once they are placed.

https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.037446,4.506723,3a,75y,90t/da... < is one of them.

Zoetermeer used to have 3 other windmills about 20 years ago, those were replaced with these.

Only thing i would like is to get cheaper power, that has not happened :|

The problem with renewable energy like wind is that it's not nearly as cheap or efficient as, say, coal power plants. That's the trade-off, really.

For sure wind turbines are much less efficient than coal power plants at polluting the air. Apart from that, can you explain how could they be less "efficient", when they consume a free and renewable resource (ie, wind)?

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