Sentences with phrase «distance from a wind turbine»

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I have never even heard a wind turbine from a distance greater than 2.5 km (correction, on 2013/07/07 I managed to just hear some turbines 3.0 km away), and then only in near - ideal conditions.

Professor Hansen's team's research findings have now supported Dr Laurie's statement in 2011 about the distance of impact and are consistent with the residents» consistent reports for nearly four years of a low frequency noise problem from the wind turbines at Waterloo, which severely disrupts their sleep.

Hub height: In a horizontal - axis wind turbine, the distance from the turbine platform to the rotor shaft.

The truth, of course, is that the sound from wind turbines is rarely audible from distances greater than 3 km and infrasound near wind turbines is no greater than elsewhere.

Some small wind turbines produce as little as 35 decibels (dB) of sound when heard from a distance of only ten feet away.

Wind farms must be built at a distance from housing of at least 10 times the height of the turbine, or about 1.5 to 2 km, under the law which was adopted by the lower house of parliament on Friday.

Better than reading pages like this, if you want to know how much sound wind turbines produce go and visit a wind farm, listen from various distances, make up your own mind.

The greatest distance from which I have ever heard a wind turbine is 2.5 km (correction, on 2013/07/07 I managed to just hear some turbines 3.0 km away), and then only in near ideal circumstances.

Yet, while thunder can only be heard from 16 km under good conditions some people will claim that wind turbines can be heard from similar, or even greater, distances.

The level of background noise at distances of a kilometre or more from wind turbines makes measuring the effect of sound from wind turbines on people at such distances complicated.

In 2014, an anonymous last - minute insertion of language into a budget bill doubled the distance that a wind turbine must sit from any adjacent property.

She is unable or unwilling to see that there is no credible physical mechanism whereby wind turbines could possibly make people ill from a distance of several kilometres;

On - shore wind turbines are often on ridges and therefore are conspicuous from long distances.

It is conceivable that the presence of wind turbines will very slightly increase the number of lightning strikes (because a slightly lower voltage build - up will be required to produce a strike over the slightly shorter distance from cloud to ground).

I believe that the closest wind turbine will be about 5 km from my house in Crystal Brook and the least distance between a turbine and a house not financially involved in the wind farm will be 1.5 km; 500m greater than that required by the state government.

The above paper further stated that studies had detected seismic waves from wind turbines that were above background levels to distances up to 18 km.

Research into the computer modeling and other methods used to determine the layout of wind turbine developments, including the distance from nearby residences, is at the same time showing that the output of the models may not accurately predict sound propagation.

The minimum distance that a wind turbine should be from an occupied house is partly a matter of opinion and, since the sound level varies depending on topography and the direction of the wind, is very difficult to place a definite figure on.

If the strongest vibrations from wind turbines are, at best, detectable at a distance of 11 km then they must be quite undetectable by human senses at distances of hundreds of metres or more from the turbines.