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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.

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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.)

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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.




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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 4th, 2008 at 02:09:25 PM EST
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Selling a book before publishing a paper is hardly the way to establish credibility.

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.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jun 4th, 2008 at 02:40:12 PM EST
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Yes, it would be worth discovering if ther's any peer-reviewed publication of this "syndrome". Tell them you have a cure with this here Brazilian rain forest oil of snake.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jun 4th, 2008 at 02:43:50 PM EST
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Since many of the low frequency sound objections originated in Britain, we should look at how the British Wind Energy Association responds.

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."

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

by Crazy Horse on Wed Jun 4th, 2008 at 03:14:43 PM EST
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the word clinical does not mean what she thinks it means.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Wed Jun 4th, 2008 at 03:40:20 PM EST
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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

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jun 4th, 2008 at 03:57:03 PM EST
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