Sentences with phrase «noise turbine noise»

-LSB-...] The direct link between very low - frequency noise turbine noise, sleep disturbance and annoyance was well and truly established by Neil Kelley & Co over 25 years ago (see posts here and here and here).

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We also shudder to think what Donald Trump, who thinks that the slow rotating blades of wind turbines miles offshore spoil his golf courses, would make of high - pitched whirring noises in the rarefied air above them.

Opponents commonly refer them to them as a blight on the natural landscape and complain about amplitude modulation - the continuous pounding noise regularly associated with turbines.

On a blustery, overcast day last week, the blades of the 156 - foot wind turbine just west of the grapevines at Pindar Vineyards cut through the air with a quiet whooshing noise.

Their results, published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, point towards potential mechanisms for noise suppression in wind turbines, aircraft, multi-rotor drones and other machines.

«At a time when issues of noise are one of the main barriers to the building of wind turbines, for example, a method for reducing the noise they generate is most welcome.»

«Owls» wings could hold the key to beating wind turbine noise.»

«These owl - inspired leading edge serrations, if applied to wind turbine blades, aircraft wings or drone rotors, could provide a useful biomimetic design for flow control and noise reduction.

The consortium points out that the speeds of turbines on land have to be limited to minimise noise, and that the wind flow over water is more constant than over land.

His team is looking into how fish respond to the electromagnetic fields that the turbines generate and the noise they create.

Other concerns include whether the noise of the turbine could attract or repel fish and whether turbine blades could strike and kill fish as they swim through them.

Although the CHARLES solver was developed to tackle problems like high - fidelity jet engine simulation and supersonic jet noise prediction, it had never been applied to predict combustion dynamics in a configuration as complex as a GE gas turbine combustion system.

Many «hummers» believe the noise is caused by low frequency resonance along high pressure gas pipes, caused by the turbines that pump the gas.

Many turbines are artificially braked so they don't make too much noise.

Scientists lack sufficient understanding of wind turbines» noise and best ways to mitigate the effects, says Jorge Arenas, a faculty member in the Universidad Austral de Chile's College of Engineering Sciences and director of its Institute of Acoustics.

Arenas hopes to develop a model to predict a turbine's noise levels.

In early March, politicians in Northern Ireland called for better monitoring of noise as well as limits on how many wind turbines could be spread across the landscape.

«The noise from wind turbines is not very loud,» says Virginia Tech's Richardo Burdisso, a professor of mechanical engineering and Arenas» colleague in Blacksburg.

Its number - crunching capabilities are used to study ship hydrodynamics and air turbulence, to probe industrial combustion turbines to create cleaner engines, and to understand global ocean circulation, as well as for earthquake simulations and aircraft noise - reduction modeling.

Hi Andrew, Thought you could update list with this paper on Effects of industrial wind turbine noise on sleep and health The study proves noise emissions from IWTs disturb sleep & impair mental health: http://www.noiseandhealth.org/article.asp?issn=1463-1741;year=2012;volume=14;issue=60;spage=237;epage=243;aulast=Nissenbaum Cheers Jamie

Her current focus is on the effects of anthropogenic sound on the physiology and behavior of fish, substantial contributions to the field on barotrauma (tissue damage) response assessment of fish from pile driving, navy sonar, and tidal turbine noise.

Quite the contrary: The relentless turbine - like urge continues beyond 150 mph, fusing wind noise, road noise, and mechanical noise to a catchy techno jam session in B - minor.

It's a melodic noise, a hint of five - cylinder warble but richer and more complex, and when you blip the throttle the turbine - smooth howl is like nothing else on earth.

Another optional extra available for both models is an acoustic pedestrian warning, which makes it easier for pedestrians to notice the vehicle when driving at low speeds in all - electric mode by generating a distinctive identifying sound similar to the noise from a turbine.

Adrian Searle wrote in a five - star review that the installation was «one of the very best Turbine Hall commissions, filling the space with sounds and furies, grand and small events, stillness and movement, noises and light and silence.»

With five 20m low - noise wind turbines installed just outside the convention centre they generate about 10 % of its electrical needs.

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.

I accept that noise at a level that could cause physical harm would constitute «pollution» but given that wind turbine noise is more of a small background hum at distance of about 400m, that falls far short of a reasonable threshhold for measurable harm.

On the issue of health, debate will continue over whether wind turbines cause sickness or unnecessary noise.

The noise from wind turbines doesn't disrupt the integrity of the biosphere.

None of the others cover any medical or health skill or expertise, and it hasn't been possible to locate any medical or health related training or degree, or indeed any other relevant technical, professional or academic qualifications he has achieved with direct relevance to wind turbine noise or health, as he does not provide details of them.

Litchfield, N.Y., Wind Energy Facilities Local Law [PDF]-- prohibition of all wind turbines > 50 kW — thorough noise regulations and measurement standards

However Mr Barnard fails to disclose that British Acoustician Dr Geoff Leventhall specifically acknowledges the existence of the symptoms of wind turbine syndrome, indeed Leventhall stated in June 2011 in a presentation to the National Health and Medical Research Council [8] that he had been familiar with the identical symptoms to WTS which he calls «noise annoyance» for «years».

Lyme, N.Y., Wind Energy Conversion Systems Law [7.5 - MB PDF]-- 1 / 2 - mile setback from property lines, 1 - mile setback from schools, churches, public gathering places; 30 / 35 - dBA +18 - dBC noise limit at property line Union, Wisc., Large Wind Turbine Citizens Committee Setback Recommendations Report [24 - MB PDF]

Plympton - Wyoming, Ont.: By - law to provide for the regulation of wind turbine noise [3.6 - MB PDF]-- infrasound, low - frequency noise, and amplitude modulation limits

Two were bought recently because nearby turbines were making more noise than was stipulated in the planning permit.

There are certain common themes that run the world over: neighbours forced to live with incessant wind turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound suffer; and the wind industry denies all responsibility, for anything, whether caused in this world or the next.

Research into aero - acoustic properties will result in both the improved efficiency of wind turbines and increased siting opportunities, as the associated noise is decreased.

The evidence proving the unnecessary damage done to wind farm neighbours by the noise generated by giant industrial wind turbines is mounting by the day: Germany's Max Planck Institute has identified sub-audible infrasound as the cause of stress, sleep disruption and more (see our post here); and a Swedish group have shown that it's the -LSB-...]

This industry has been well aware of the problems directly caused by wind turbine noise since 1987, when Dr Neil Kelley's research [12] establishing direct causation of annoyance symptoms from infrasound and low frequency noise was presented at the American Wind Energy Association conference.

The MP for Dufferin - Caledon, David Tilson, has written a letter to Health Canada expressing concern about the number of complaints about wind turbine noise.

Kelly, et al, 1898, Acoustic Noise Associated with the MOD 1 Wind Turbine.

Irrespective of the Environment Review Tribunal's questionable determination in the Boviard case, which is consistent with other questionable decisions made by the same Tribunal resulting in many rural Ontarians being harmed by wind turbine noise because of unsafe and continuing wind turbine development approvals, it is logically impossible for anyone to diagnose someone «before» they have symptoms.

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].

«Shooting the professional messengers» as the Energy and Policy Institute publication by Barnard [14] has tried to do, will not stop the litigation for noise nuisance, negligence against complicit acousticians, or applications for injunctions to cease the operation of turbines, and will only further reduce the diminishing social licence for the wind industry to operate.

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.

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.

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.

Research has found that intrusive noises adversely affect children's cardiovascular systems, memory, language development and ability to learn, though studies specifically on impacts of wind turbine noise on youngsters has not been done.

Stephana had lived for years among the wind turbines in the Cultus - Clear Creek - Frogmore wind power project, developed by AIM PowerGen, and was one of the forst people in Ontario to experience symptoms from exposure to the vibration and noise emissions.