Whatever it is that is coming from wind turbines doesn't obey the inverse square law of physics (everything else does).
Wind turbine noise is a reported cause of these effects; however, some commentators suggest sound
from wind turbines does not pose a risk of any adverse health effect in humans.
The noise from wind turbines doesn't disrupt the integrity of the biosphere.
Not exact matches
From pipelines to
wind turbines — nearly no one wants these things built near them and many people don't want them built at all.
Biello: And they
do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of
wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they
do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come
from renewable resources like the
wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the
wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.
It can absorb and release huge amounts of electricity at the drop of a hat and
do so over and over, making it ideal for smoothing out the flow
from wind turbines and solar cells.
That didn't happen here, although one proposed farm was abandoned because the vibration
from the
wind turbines would have increased the «seismic noise» at the Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory», half of which is located on the Hanford Site, looking for gravitational waves.
Floating
wind turbines can be placed away
from the coast in deeper water as they don't need to be anchored to sea floor - mounted towers, which are typically limited to a water depth of up to 260 ft (80 m).
(It appears supporting industrial - scale
wind turbines that kill birds and bats
did not deter the Ontario Liberal government
from appointing Ms. Saxe as commissioner of the environment.)
Mr Barnard also fails to mention the opinions of rural family physicians such as Dr Sandy Reider,
from Vermont, who is at the front line of clinical care for those affected by
wind turbine noise, that «
wind turbine syndrome» is a euphemistic description which
does not sufficiently depict the clinical severity of the clinical cases he is seeing [10].
Gamesa has landed a contract
from La Compagnie
du Vent, a
wind energy subsidiary of GDF SUEZ, to upgrade 19
wind turbines in the south of France.
It is also clear that the original widely publicised complaint to the NHMRC and AHPRA alleging professional and research misconduct, was
done for precisely the same reasons by those within public health and
wind industry circles in Australia who were unhappy with the attention the issue of health damage
from wind turbine noise was attracting.
A Goldwind 1.5 - megawatt
turbine with PMDD technology that was erected for research and development purposes in the Bohai Sea in 2007 is still «
doing the job it's designed to
do, producing power
from wind.»
(This is not absolutely true; energy is taken
from the
wind, but that is without any sort of cost that anyone has identified, and if the
wind isn't blowing the
turbines do consume a little electricity to run various equipment.)
I bet you have all those Oil company checks in your swiss bank account as I
do mine
from the Nuclear industry that I was accused of by a local greenie and my «Split Atoms not Birds...» remark concerning my opposition to
Wind turbines....
TORONTO • Is Ontario generating less electricity
from solar panels and
wind turbines than it
did years ago, despite billions in subsidies to the renewable energy sector?
We believe the rampant installation of
turbines across this country must be stopped now; and,
from the evidence we have gathered since December 2012, we are convinced that industrial
wind power
does not work on any level: economic; social or environmental.
That's because a working electricity system fueled mostly by
wind turbines requires additional massive costs that a fossil fuel system
does not: huge excess capacity (perhaps 300 - 400 %) to deal with conditions of light
wind; gigantic batteries to store power for conditions of no
wind at all, which can persist for days; extra transmission lines to bring electricity
from windier areas to the rest of the country; and finally, an entire array of fossil fuel back - up plants for those occasions when the
wind doesn't blow for a week and the batteries are dead.
Layoffs and bankruptcies continued to mount for European and North American companies producing solar panels and
wind turbines, as
did their pleas for subsidies to fight off what they labelled unfair competition
from Chinese firms.
«We don't take this step lightly,» says Jane Wilson, WCO President and a Registered Nurse, «but with the MOECC not responding to thousands of reports of excessive noise
from wind turbines, which is affecting sleep and health for Ontario families, we had no choice.
Just because
wind turbines are erroneously labelled «green»
does not make them so as can be seen
from the over 350 articles on the subject that we have posted on this site.
-------- And
from the highly respected Imperial College, London, a damning comment
from some research
done on
wind turbines.
Wind turbines can and
do replace coal - burning power stations and the World Health Organisation tells us that air pollution, much of it
from burning coal, kills seven million people each year.
These tests include making sure that the project is not legally required to be
done by law — for example, if a city has said that all new power plants had to come
from wind turbines, carbon offset financing would not be allowed to be applied for such a project.
I
do know that our Prime Minister's Father - In - Law makes a # 1,000 a week
from his
wind turbine.
In this context, if people
did get a decent pay back period
from micro-generation then the potential contribution to the grid would amount to more than all your
wind turbines put together and so wouldn't just be a token amount but actually part of the package of solutions.
While these two links are
from Joe Romm's propaganda site, they
do help make the case: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/02/28/433434/envia-gm-doe-lithium-ion-batteries-cut-costs-in-half-triple-energy-density/ http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/24/896151/how-decades-of-federal-support-spurred-the-natural-gas-boom-most-companies-would-have-given-up/ The implementation side is frought with typical top - down effects such as crony capitalism, subsidies for rich people, and environmentally dubious energy sources, such as flickering, bat lung exploding,
wind turbines.
Dr. Hazel Lynn says, for one thing, the study
did not include people who moved away
from wind turbines.
If I recall correctly, the charging should be
done from the grid, not
from any kind of on - board
wind turbines.
«In case of emergencies, rescues need to be immediate, and since
wind farms are often located in isolated areas, many jurisdictions
do not have the ability or the equipment to respond to these situations,» said Avner Farkash, CEO of SkySaver Rescue Ltd. «With more than 250 fires and hundreds of emergency evacuations
from wind turbines each year, we are proud to introduce a cost - effective solution that enables safety managers to send technicians up
wind turbines with the necessary tools to evacuate in case of emergency.
Since offshore
wind turbines are not attached to the outer continental shelf for the purpose of exploring for, developing, or producing resources
from the subsoil or seabed, federal courts may hold that the OCSLA
does not apply.
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Wind Turbines Cost?
Not only
do they greatly expand the area available for
wind farms, they also have the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of offshore
wind generation, which today is more than twice as expensive as that
from turbines on land.
Ontario's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change received thousands of formal complaints
from people living near industrial
wind turbines, but
did little about it, a coalition of groups and individuals opposed to
wind farm development is charging.
The best thing you can
do to learn the facts on the sound levels
from wind turbines is to visit a
wind farm yourself.
What he
does not explain is why the «failure» of the
turbine to take a larger proportion of power
from the
wind is any sort of problem.
There are theoretical factors that limit the maximum possible efficiency for
wind or water
turbines that are driven by the stream velocity to around 60 % — this has to
do with the idea that the
turbine can not slow the water down to zero velocity — there has to be some velocity to carry the water away
from the
turbine.
It is becoming clear that, if local opposition to
wind power is not to overwhelm general approval, there needs to be more reward for those people who host
turbines in their vicinity, but
do not currently receive any income
from them.
I have been told that some aerial agricultural operations, such as mouse baiting and the application of fertiliser, are best
done from altitudes higher than
wind turbines.
I don't know if
wind turbines 13 miles
from the beach really qualifies as «far
from our shores», but compared to offshore
wind developments in Europe the US lags behind so Mandelstam's enthusiasm is definitely warranted.
Again the modelling that has been
done suggests that only 3 or 4 GW of well dispersed
wind would be required with 750MW or so of extra peaking power
from cheap gas
turbines.
The cost of
doing that will later be clawed back
from revenues once the
wind turbines are turning.»
It is understandable that people, who
do not have direct monetary gain
from wind turbines, object to having to occasionally hear them.
Thorough primary scientific research (not simply studies of exiting research) into human and animal heath and annoyance due to sound and infrasound
from wind turbines could be carried out, and it should be
done on behalf of government, the
wind industry, and the general public so that the research can be seen to be unbiased.
In fact, the little infrasound that comes
from wind turbines is harmless, and I'd be very surprised if the iPhone ap
did any good.
If a person sees a
wind turbine (as I
do) as graceful, elegant, an optimistic symbol of a cleaner and better future and finds the sounds that
turbines make pleasant and restful (as I
do), they are very unlikely to develop any ill - effects
from being near
turbines.
«75... the Tribunals
did not have before them expert evidence which seriously called into question the principle underpinning the EPA's renewable energy project regulatory regime — i.e. that
wind turbines which are set back 550m
from a dwelling house and which
do not generate noise levels in excess of 40 dBA at the lowest specified
wind speed
do not cause serious harm to human health based upon the current state of scientific knowledge.»