On those occasions when disagreement and sometimes conflict have arisen, from my experience it is most often those who spread misinformation and unfounded rumours
about wind turbines who have been the cause.
Not exact matches
Along the way, we are treated to Isabel's philosophical musings on many diverse subjects: being polite, or saying what you really feel; landscape painters taking artistic licence; the purpose of art; adoption; head lice; which bodily afflictions are too personal to talk
about; sarcasm; swearing;
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who you are.
She describes a farmer in Montana
who had been skeptical
about the need for an energy revolution but is now getting more income from
wind -
turbine leases than agriculture.
Identifying that some people
who have one or more acknowledged risk factors prior to Industrial
Wind Turbines beginning to operate provides information
about predictable health problems which may ensue with exposure to infrasound and low frequency noise.
A significant number of people,
who live in proximity to Industrial
Wind Turbines, complain
about a variety of physical and emotional symptoms.
I have talked to a friend
who run the crew that maintains 50
wind turbines in wyoming
about this idea.
That evidence completely contradicts the
wind industry lie that
turbine hosts never, ever complain; a piece of propaganda cooked up by its media manipulators — including a former tobacco advertising guru —
who run the story that it's only «jealous»
wind farm neighbours
who complain
about wind turbine noise, «jealous» because they're not getting paid.
For those of us
who learned
about nuclear power in school but nothing
about wind turbines, here's a simple explanation of how
wind turbines work, with a brief history of the industry.
Laforet says he is concerned
about «
wind turbine syndrome,» the term some use to describe the symptoms of people
who say they have been sickened by the noise.
Of course, that summary omits all the caveats
about mortalities Lovich et al might have missed,
about the Mesa
Wind Project being one development in a sea of larger turbines, about absence of evidence not being evidence of absence, fewer eagles per year and so forth, so wind fans who pride themselves on their science literacy might have second thoug
Wind Project being one development in a sea of larger
turbines,
about absence of evidence not being evidence of absence, fewer eagles per year and so forth, so
wind fans who pride themselves on their science literacy might have second thoug
wind fans
who pride themselves on their science literacy might have second thoughts.
One «argument» you might come across if you point out the science
about turbines and health is «So you believe that all those people
who have reported to
wind farm inquiries
about their health problems are telling lies!».
Support for the Danish and Swedish academic opposition to the new, lax legislation on
wind turbine noise being concocted in Copenhagen has been coming from a number of noise engineers, acousticians, doctors, psychologists and nurses in the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc.
who have expressed in conferences and in the media their concern
about the failure of governments to address properly the
wind farm health problem.
Lloyd was writing
about a «study» that was based on only six self - selected subjects
who claimed to be adversely affected by nearby
wind turbines while over a hundred more were apparently unaffected by the
turbines and not included in the study.
I can accept that some people don't like
wind turbines on aesthitic grounds, I agree that there are some genuine and valid problems with
wind farms; but I refuse to turn a blind eye to people
who tell lies
about wind turbines.
A typical modern, utility - scale,
wind turbine will generate
about as much clean electricity as 2000 average roof - top solar installations (around 2012, see here), so you would think that people
who want action on climate change would support
wind power.
Boss continues: «In some epidemics, actual clinical illness in some group members may spread as epidemic hysteria by the transmission of anxiety to groups observing those
who were initially ill»; this sounds similar to the spreading of hysteria
about wind turbines by people like Dr Nina Pierpont and Sarah Laurie,
who condition people to expect to feel ill if they go anywhere near a
wind farm.
A survey of those people
who live near
wind turbines, their health problems, and aiming to establish whether those problems are related to the
turbines, to perceptions
about the
turbines or totally unrelated to the
turbines.