Your Questions About Wind Turbine Syndrome
Joseph asks…
Isn’t it time to face the truth about wind power?
Wind turbines are very expensive to build and install, and maintenance costs are ridiculous. They kill thousands of birds and bats, are aviation hazards, and are so noisy that even the environment-minded Kennedys blocked the construction of a bunch of them on Cape Cod. They even cause a disease called Wind Turbine Syndrome in people who live nearby. Now it turns out that wind farms cause climate disruption as well. On top of that, it has been proven that “mathematically windmills are completely unsustainable” (see link below). So–shouldn’t the politicians look at the facts and stop spending our money to promote a technology that is profoundly stupid?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9234715/Wind-farms-can-cause-climate-change-finds-new-study.html
http://nikitas3.com/1827/mathematical-proof-that-windmills-dont-work/
admin answers:
None of the above is totally factual. Bird kills? Some, but high rise office buildings kill thousands, as do pesticides, herbicides and house cats. While building wind turbines ain’t cheap, they’re far cheaper per kilowatt hour over X years of operation than coal burning plants when ALL of the costs over 5/10/15 years are considered. Maintenance as per hours of operation divided by hours under repair per unit is less than coal plants when again, all of the supply tail and disposal issues are factored in. It wasn’t the ‘Kennedy’s’ alone that were opposed to the Cape Cod project…it was everyone on that particular part of the east coast. Wind Turbine Syndrome? Try living down wind from a coal plant.
Here in the southwest we have sun AND wind almost everyday. Even on the ‘calm days’ the sun shines bright and on the few really cloudy days the wind blows at a steady clip. In the mid west you can count on a lot of wind. We’re talking about at least 1/3 of this country that could get by with only a minimum of coal or gas burning power plants. Of course that would cut a massive hole in the coal industry and the coal burning power plant companies…so of course they don’t any part of 21st. Century technology. 99% of the propaganda against solar and wind is exactly that…propaganda to save a 19th century technology from going extinct.
Lizzie asks…
Wind turbine syndrome? Infrasound?
Apparently those huge wind turbines can give off infrasound (sound >20 Hz) which causes a lot of things like nausea, problems sleeping, difficulty concentrating etc. What i am wondering is do they ALL give off this and if so at what distance from them is the infrasound at its prime? I would like to find out also is there a way of producing infrasound at home for the purpose of experiment to see if it has any effect (as some people are apparently more affected than others) and has anyone had any bad experiences with it?
Thanks 10 points.
admin answers:
I quote
“With regard to effects of noise from wind turbines, the main effect depends on the listener’s reaction to what they may hear. There are no direct health effects from noise at the level of noise generated by wind turbines. 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.”
See link for the rest.
If your ‘source’ is anything other than the usual ‘scare mongering’ by the no-nothing morons of the gutter press, by all means counter this conclusion ..
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