Large wind turbines require a large amount of energy to operate. Other electricity plants generally use their own electricity, and the difference between the amount they generate and the amount delivered to the grid is readily determined. Wind plants, however, use electricity from the grid, which does not appear to be [...]
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Wind Turbine Syndrome: Study of Adverse Health Effects Published
PR-inside–Dr. Nina Pierpont, a pediatrician and population biologist in Malone, NY, announced the publication of her book-length study: “Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Report on a Natural Experiment.”
In interviews with 10 families living 1,000 feet to 4,900 feet away from recently built industrial-size wind turbines, a “cluster” of symptoms was revealed: from sleep disturbance, which affected [...]
Wind Turbine Syndrome
Further evidence-based research is needed to confirm health problems associated with wind turbines and to devise effective buffer-zone regulations and sound-cancelling technologies. Until then, I say NIMBY!
Jess Dancer, EdD, is professor emeritus of audiology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
DeKalb County Wind Turbine Noise
Wondering what a day in the footprint of the DeKalb County industrial wind energy center might sound like? Yes, there were planes flying over the area near the wind turbines, but not during these clips, it just sounds that way. All the video was captured at the DeKalb County wind farm with the same camera [...]
Wind power is a complete disaster
There is no evidence that industrial wind power is likely to have a significant impact on carbon emissions. The European experience is instructive. Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover [...]
Lee-DeKalb Wind turbines
Wind turbines in Lee-DeKalb Counties, IL
Shadow Flicker
Turbine shadow flicker occurs in the home, around the home and on the local roads in the Lee-DeKalb counties. It’s difficult to get away from it, even if it’s not in your own home. Our friends and neighbors have it in their homes. Even if neither of us has in our home at the moment, [...]
Annoyance, another word for Torment
WindAction Editorial
Last September, Concerned Citizens to Save Roxbury and others filed an appeal of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s (MEDEP) final order approving the Record Hill wind energy facility proposed for Roxbury, ME.
The appeal challenged the permit on a number of important issues including MEDEP’s reliance, in part, on claims made by Maine’s Center for Disease [...]
Village of Lee petitions judge to examine how summons were served
DeKALB – Lawyers for the Village of Lee are asking a judge to examine how court summons were served to village board members who are being sued for rejecting a request by an energy company to build six wind turbines near the village.
Mars Hill wind turbine project health effects: preliminary findings
Mars Hill wind turbine project health effects: preliminary findings
Dr. Michael A. Nissenbaum, a radiologist at the Northern Maine Medical Center, conducted interviews with fifteen people living near the wind energy facility in Mars Hill, Maine. His preliminary data suggests the residents are experiencing medical problems (sleep disturbances, headaches, dizziness, weight changes, possible increases in blood [...]
Family says turbine vibrations made them ill enough to move
The large house in Lower West Pubnico is now empty and abandoned, d’Entremont says, because inaudible sound from the 17-turbine wind farm made his family sick. “It’s like a surround sound — you can’t avoid it, you can’t ignore it. It just comes right into your head.” D’Entremont blames the turbines for sending low-frequency [...]
Health concerns and the need for careful siting of wind turbines
We know, as physicians, that sleep deprivation and chronic stress can result in many consequential negative health effects, some of them serious, over the long term.
These effects arise not only from audible noise frequencies but also from persistent inaudible low frequency noise waves of a cyclical nature which are felt, but not heard. [...]
TRADING SHORT TERM GAIN FOR LONG TERM LOSS
“TRADING SHORT TERM GAIN FOR LONG TERM LOSS”
WIND TOWERS RISING FROM THE PRAIRIE LAND
MANUFACTURED TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY
WITHOUT ANY GREAT DEMAND…ITS BIO-FUEL
WE NEED TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDANCY ON
FOREIGN OIL….BUT ITS WIND TOWERS THEY
PROPOSE TO PLACE UPON OUR SOIL…
Public Hearing Meeting Adjourned Early Because of Overcrowding
The public hearing on Thursday 19, 2009 was adjourned about 15 minutes after it had begun because of massive overcrowding.
