Photo: Flickr, CC Wind Power is Still a Maturing Technology University of Adelaide acoustics researchers are investigating the causes of wind
turbine noise with the aim of making them quieter.
Despite these claims by the wind industry as of late 2012 there were over a dozen peer - reviewed published papers linking wind
turbine noise with health impacts.
Not exact matches
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.
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
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.
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.
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».
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.
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.
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.
On October 14, 2014, after more than four years of hearing testimony from residents, visiting the wind project, studying the science on wind
turbine noise, speaking to researchers, and reviewing
noise testing results, the Brown County Board of Health correctly and courageously declared Duke Energy's Shirley Wind
turbines a «Human Health Hazard» in accordance
with Brown County and Wisconsin state statutes.
For those unfortunates forced to live
with incessant
turbine generated low - frequency
noise and infrasound, the cause of their inability to sleep is no mystery.
Noise from these massively larger turbines has increased correspondingly with low - frequency noise broadcast over a much larger area according to Danish experts Professors Moeller and Pedersen who said «It must be anticipated that problems with low - frequency noise will increase with even larger turbines.&r
Noise from these massively larger
turbines has increased correspondingly
with low - frequency
noise broadcast over a much larger area according to Danish experts Professors Moeller and Pedersen who said «It must be anticipated that problems with low - frequency noise will increase with even larger turbines.&r
noise broadcast over a much larger area according to Danish experts Professors Moeller and Pedersen who said «It must be anticipated that problems
with low - frequency
noise will increase with even larger turbines.&r
noise will increase
with even larger
turbines.»
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Noise generated by wind
turbines appears to correlate
with lower quality of life scores.
Noise levels of the turbines have become a contentious issue with a Faribault County wind farm, but Krueger said that Tradewind Energy is cognizant of the turbine n
Noise levels of the
turbines have become a contentious issue
with a Faribault County wind farm, but Krueger said that Tradewind Energy is cognizant of the
turbine noisenoise.
For those unfortunates forced to live cheek - by - jowl
with these things, it isn't just incessant
turbine generated low - frequency
noise and infrasound that drives neighbours nuts.
«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.
While the results for people set upon by subsidy - soaked wind power outfits are a tragedy, the real tragedy is that those who are paid handsomely to protect them, not only ignore their plight, but side
with the wind industry, protecting it from any attempt by their victims to regulate or control
noise emissions from wind
turbines.
Frankly, it is the nearest wind
turbine to where I live, and a number of neighbours are having problems, and not just
with the audible
noise but
with the infrasound and low - frequency
noise, based upon the symptoms they are reporting to me.
There is every indication globally,
with respect to acousticians working for the wind industry, and some other
noise polluters, that some are regularly breaching their professional codes of ethics by ignoring or dismissing the reported
noise impacts of the wind
turbine neighbours.
Another concern that must be dealt
with is the development of wind
turbine noise measurements that have clinical relevance.
We are hoping for a complete halt to the ongoing damage of the government's policies, and that there will be help for people already living
with the
noise and other impacts of industrial - scale wind
turbines.
In short, we take every opportunity possible to explain the situation for people living in communities where wind
turbines and their
noise emissions have been forced, without consent, on the people of Ontario,
with the goal of having regulations and processes changed.
In rural Australia, acoustical consultants working for the wind industry or other
noise polluters are regarded almost universally
with complete contempt by those people whose health has been harmed by the
noise pollution, regardless of the source of the
noise (eg mining, CSG field compressors, gas fired power stations as well as wind
turbines).
To reflect the ministry's conservative approach to dealing
with noise emissions from wind
turbines and to support the adoption of the 2013 CSA standard, three amendments are being proposed to the definition of «sound power level» in the REA Regulation to provide clarity:
Having already been whacked
with costly lawsuits from wind farm neighbours — in one case a court awarding Dkr 500,000 (A$ 93,439) in compensation for the substantial reduction in the value of the plaintiffs» home, caused by incessant
turbine noise (see our post here)-- the Danish wind industry has resorted to the wholesale destruction of homes in order to carpet the country in even more of the things.
When Adelaide University masters student Frank Wang surveyed residents within a 5 km radius of the Waterloo wind
turbines he found 70 per cent of respondents claimed they had been negatively affected by the wind development and the
noise,
with more than 50 per cent having been very or moderately negatively affected.
Trying to explain the pulsing, rhythmic low - frequency
noise generated by wind
turbines to someone who hasn't had to live
with it, is like trying to explain a migraine to someone that's never had a headache.
This has NOT been done and will NOT be done until Special Audible Characteristics are considered for what they are; in conjunction
with real time
noise testing of all audible sound being emitted from all operating
turbines.
This is the same government, indeed the same ministry, that promised to deal
with reports of
noise and other effects from industrial - scale wind
turbines.
STT finds it hard to believe that anyone in touch
with their earthly senses could compare wind
turbine noise to waves lapping on a beach:
«For people living
with the
noise and vibration of the huge
turbines interfering
with their lives, this is outrageous,» Wilson said.
Health aspects associated
with wind
turbine noise — results from three field studies Pedersen, Eja
The advent of wind
turbines in the 1990's brought about changes by devaluing public
noise protections
with favorable legislation and regulation to facilitate permitting.
Is there evidence to suggest that specific aspects of wind
turbine sound such as infrasound and low frequency sound have unique potential health effects not associated
with other sources of environmental
noise?
**** Australia is blessed
with a former tobacco advertising guru who is paid a packet by wind power outfits — like near - bankrupt Infigen — to pedal a story that the adverse health impacts caused by incessant
turbine generated low - frequency
noise and infrasound (such as sleep deprivation) are the product of «scare - mongering» — which, on his -LSB-...]
The review includes an up to date review of measurement techniques for assessing
noise from wind
turbines in accordance
with international standards.
Noise from
turbines plays a minor role in comparison
with other factors in leading people to report annoyance in the context of wind
turbines.
Post-operation, the numbers of bat deaths and bird kills far exceed what was expected from the wind
turbines,
noise complaints are being made more frequently as a result of more powerful
turbines, and wind power companies have abused their approvals by removing trees from protected woodlands, for example, or placing
turbines on sites not consistent
with the approvals.
No association between wind
turbine noise and any significant changes in reported quality of life, or
with overall quality of life, and satisfaction
with health.
-LSB-...] low frequency
noise from wind
turbines causes significant human health problems, interferes
with whale and porpoise navigational and food - finding systems, and affects other wildlife -LSB-...]
Natural justice demands that people whose amenity has been impacted by
noise or some other problem to do
with turbines should receive some sort of compensation.
During commissioning of Hallett 2, which consists of 34 x 2.1 MW wind
turbines, extensive
noise testing and monitoring was carried out by specialist
noise consultants to determine compliance
with noise guidelines.
Driving neighbours nuts
with incessant wind
turbine generated low - frequency
noise and infra - sound is what the wind industry does best.
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