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At any rate they exhibited a letter from Dr. Nina Pierpont (hmmm - a Pierpont - hmmm) concerning a research project that grew out of her practice in Maine. Soon to be published, she mentioned. Gist was that less than a mile of distance on the downwind side may present a potential for several health problems.
I talked to the Planning Dept. head of our east-neighboring county, which is approaching $2 billion USD in wind-turbine property assets, and he said that they get almost no complaints, except an occasional one about "light flicker". However, that county has a very low population density, and all of the 'wind farms' are being sited on the properties of willing participants.
Upshot is that I take such concerns seriously enough to ask the experts for their experience/opinion. Any information for me? paul spencer
Wind Turbine Syndrome is the clinical name I have given to the constellation of symptoms experienced by many (though not all) people who find themselves living near industrial wind turbines: sleep problems (insomnia), headaches, dizziness, unsteadiness, nausea, exhaustion, anxiety, anger, irritability, depression, memory loss, eye problems, problems with concentration and learning, tinnitus (ringing in the ears). As industrial windplants proliferate close to people's homes and anywhere else people regularly congregate (schools, nursing homes, places of business, etc.), Wind Turbine Syndrome likely will become an industrial plague. The following is a series of articles and reports I have written on wind energy and human health. ... The book will be sold on www.WindTurbineSyndrome.com (credit card sales, using PayPal) for approx. $10 & shipping. Start checking www.WindTurbineSyndrome.com in late June to make your purchase. (Website currently under construction.) ... Wind Turbine Syndrome is a 100-plus page clinical, scientific report, easily readable by non-clinicians. It is the complete and authoritative report on Wind Turbine Syndrome to date. The intended audience is clinicians (such as your family doctor) and people who are (or about to be) living in the shadow of wind turbines. Based on the evidence presented, it calls for a minimum of 2 km setbacks of industrial turbines from people's homes.
The following is a series of articles and reports I have written on wind energy and human health.
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The book will be sold on www.WindTurbineSyndrome.com (credit card sales, using PayPal) for approx. $10 & shipping. Start checking www.WindTurbineSyndrome.com in late June to make your purchase. (Website currently under construction.)
Wind Turbine Syndrome is a 100-plus page clinical, scientific report, easily readable by non-clinicians. It is the complete and authoritative report on Wind Turbine Syndrome to date. The intended audience is clinicians (such as your family doctor) and people who are (or about to be) living in the shadow of wind turbines. Based on the evidence presented, it calls for a minimum of 2 km setbacks of industrial turbines from people's homes.
The methodology seems to be based on phone interviews and self-reporting, rather than objective clinical examinations.
That doesn't help establish credibility either.
It shouldn't be too hard to measure subsonic noise acoustically - which should refute the arguments, if there's very little, which I'd guess there would be.
BWEA On Noise
The conclusion is biased, as expected.
It has been repeatedly shown by measurements of wind turbine noise undertaken in the UK, Denmark, Germany and the USA over the past decade, and accepted by experienced noise professionals, that the levels of infrasonic noise and vibration radiated from modern, upwind configuration wind turbines are at a very low level; so low that they lie below the threshold of perception, even for those people who are particularly sensitive to such noise, and even on an actual wind turbine site. In response to concerns that wind turbines emit infrasound and cause associated health problems, Dr Geoff Leventhall, Consultant in Noise Vibration and Acoustics and author of the Defra Report on Low Frequency Noise and its Effects, says: "I can state quite categorically that there is no significant infrasound from current designs of wind turbines."
In response to concerns that wind turbines emit infrasound and cause associated health problems, Dr Geoff Leventhall, Consultant in Noise Vibration and Acoustics and author of the Defra Report on Low Frequency Noise and its Effects, says:
"I can state quite categorically that there is no significant infrasound from current designs of wind turbines."
I would begin research in this issue at NREL and AWEA, or for more definitive answers at Risoe and EWEA, for after all, Europe has far more experience. There are dozens, if not hundreds of reports on the issue.
The short answer, to be kind, is that Nina Pierpont is pulling her "science" out of her ass.
I suppose the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of Germans and Danes and Spaniards who continue to live productively in their homes near operating wind parks could be thought of as the control group, and the 17.3 "shills" who continue to exhibit a disease called "opposition financing" do not represent a fair sample.
But then i probably suffer from Wind Turbine Syndrome, or Wind Turbine Syndrome fatigue. Skennah Kowa
you are the media you consume.
sleep problems (insomnia), headaches, dizziness, unsteadiness, nausea, exhaustion, anxiety, anger, irritability, depression, memory loss, eye problems, problems with concentration and learning, tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
A set of symptoms you could get fairly impressive numbers for with almost any group living near anything. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
