Wind turbine syndrome

[***super_nova***]

Interesting facts:

"In a peer-reviewed paper of mine to be published shortly, I conducted an historical audit of all known health and noise complaints made about Australia’s 51 wind farms from 1993 to 2012. Using four sources (wind company records, submissions made to three parliamentary enquiries, local media monitoring records and court affidavits) I calculated the number of complainants around Australia.

More than two-thirds of Australian wind farms including more than half of those with large turbines have never received a single complaint. Two whole states – Western Australia and Tasmania – have seen no complaints.

Almost all (98%) of complainants made their first complaint after 2009 when anti wind farm groups began to add health concerns to their wider opposition. In the preceding years, health or noise complaints were rare despite large and small-turbine wind farms having operated for many years."

http://theconversation.com/wind-turbine-syndrome-farm-hosts-tell-very-different-story-18241?utm_medi...

[twinkles**stars]

You visited a wind tower what?Once? incorrect

And you came close enough to have a good look up at the thing? correct

Did you go and see what you could hear from the nearest resident? didn't have seek one out 🙂

Or even from the nearest street? we were in the street 🙂

You obviously haven't though....

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[***super_nova***]

I am sure the noise can be annoying, but all noise is; people living next to freeways complain - that is why we have sound barriers built along them.  I would not buy a house close to railway line, and would not particularly want to live under flightpath.  But noise is the price we pay for our way of life, together with pollution etc. 

But the problems that people describe as being solely caused by the wind turbines are in fact common problems that people have.  Maybe these people did not think about the reasons why they get a headache or cannot sleep until it was pointed out to them that it could be the turbine, or they know well that they had headaches and insomnia before but now they have something to blame, and would not bit of compensation from the turbine company come handy.  The thing is that some people trying to take it to court then refused to supply their medical records, and the cases collapsed. 

[twinkles**stars]

BTW there are sounds that we can't hear but our brains are aware of

[twinkles**stars]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

I am sure the noise can be annoying, but all noise is; people living next to freeways complain - that is why we have sound barriers built along them.  I would not buy a house close to railway line, and would not particularly want to live under flightpath.  But noise is the price we pay for our way of life, together with pollution etc. 

But the problems that people describe as being solely caused by the wind turbines are in fact common problems that people have.  Maybe these people did not think about the reasons why they get a headache or cannot sleep until it was pointed out to them that it could be the turbine, or they know well that they had headaches and insomnia before but now they have something to blame, and would not bit of compensation from the turbine company come handy.  The thing is that some people trying to take it to court then refused to supply their medical records, and the cases collapsed. 

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I agree we live with sound but railways, freeways etc are not the same constant noise....it constantly changes with night time either far less or none at all. Wind turbines omit the same sound 24/7 with some exception allowing for wind, but it never stops.

This wind farms are being built on neighbouring properties devaluing surrounding properties.

[twinkles**stars]

Infrasound.....

[***super_nova***]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

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I agree we live with sound but railways, freeways etc are not the same constant noise....it constantly changes with night time either far less or none at all. Wind turbines omit the same sound 24/7 with some exception allowing for wind, but it never stops.

This wind farms are being built on neighbouring properties devaluing surrounding properties.

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My family had a holiday house in the mountains in Europe and in the winter sometimes the wind would howl all night; actually that sound is very similar to the wind turbine.  I also lived in a house right on the edge of a cliff above the ocean; again in wild weather the huge waves breaking bellow and the wind hitting the cliffs also made awful lot of noise, I just got used to it.

The scaremongering is what mainly devalues property.  Did you read the article that I gave link to in the OP?  It points out that many turbines were in some places for 10 years or more without any complaints, and problems only started once the anti-wind groups came to the area.

[***super_nova***]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

Infrasound.....

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Yes, there is lot of infrasound around; dogs can hear it, but it has no effect on us.

[twinkles**stars]

My family had a holiday house in the mountains in Europe and in the winter sometimes the wind would howl all night; actually that sound is very similar to the wind turbine.  I also lived in a house right on the edge of a cliff above the ocean; again in wild weather the huge waves breaking bellow and the wind hitting the cliffs also made awful lot of noise, I just got used to it.

As you said SOMETIMES....not 24/7 I know what howling winds are like having had a lodge at My Hotham. Even here the wind can keep me awake. But that's not every day and every night. Same with staying on the Island and hearing the waves crashing all night long, lovely at first but not something I could live long term with.

We all hear things differently, feel vibrations differently and as time as  changed people are more aware of what they don't have to put up with what is ruining your life.

Some may live next to a railway and not be bothered by it, others it would drive them mad

[twinkles**stars]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

Infrasound.....

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Yes, there is lot of infrasound around; dogs can hear it, but it has no effect on us.

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It can have an effect on us.

[monman12]

TS: " Wind turbines omit the same sound 24/7 with some exception allowing for wind, but it never stops." "never stops?

That is incorrect , when the wind speed is below a certain value  (5kph) the blades will  not be in use/rotate, and after that the audio, and subsonic audio output varies with the blade rotational sped, approximately 5-20 RPM,  and the resulting harmonics as a result of the rotational speed.

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