Semantic Scholar:
Current technology uses wind turbines’ blade aerodynamics to convert wind energy to electricity. This process generates significant low-frequency noise that reportedly results in residents’ sleep disruptions, among other annoyance symptoms. However, the existence and the importance of wind farms’ health effects on a population scale remain unknown. Exploiting over 800 utility-scale wind turbine installation events in the United States from 2001 to 2013, I show robust evidence that wind farms lead to significant increases in suicide. I explore three indirect tests of the role of low-frequency noise exposure.
First, the suicide effect concentrates among individuals, such as the elderly, who are vulnerable to noise-induced illnesses.
Second, the suicide effect is driven by days when wind blows in directions that would raise residents’ exposure to low-frequency noise radiation.
Third, data from a large-scale health survey suggest increased sleep insufficiency as new turbines began operating. more
See also:
h/t The Truth Behind Wind Turbines! – The Joe Hoft Show.
If it saves just one life…
For years now I have watched the fiberglass
blades come down I-45 from the port of
Galveston,TX. Police escort and a traffic jam
comes with them.There is no way to recycle them.
How ironic that the blades travel over the gulf which
is FULL of clean natural gas……
I have noticed an unnerving high-pitched squeal emanating from electronic vehicles. I wonder what the long term effect of that noise will be.
How many millions of ‘protected’ birds have committed suicide by flying into windmill blades?
I especially love how the blades themselves can’t be recycled and are instead are either left to rot in back lots and fields or buried in huge pits by the hundreds. Very green and eco-friendly.
There were a mess of them across the Yellowstone from Livingston Mt fifty years ago and are all gone now. They definitely make a droning sound.
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.
Wind turbines are national energy suicide.
VeedonFleece – I have noticed an unnerving high-pitched squeal emanating from electronic vehicles.
Switching noise and magnetic vibration. An EV is basically one giant switching power supply that will cause vibration in anything magnetic that isn’t potted in epoxy or similar. Even then they can audibly vibrate, which, as the car ages, will probably get worse as things wear or rust.
It is also why AM radio won’t work in EVs – too much EMI (switching noise interference) which also conveniently gave the feds a lame excuse to eliminate the AM radio band (read Conservative Talk Radio) even as less than 6% of the cars on the road are EVs and EV manufacturers are failing or cutting way back!
Build one next to John Kerry’s house then.
Make all of the stop oil people sleep under them.
I’m sure our guvmint has been playing with this sort of ‘sound influence’ for MANY years (US embassys?). Maybe this is how many college kids and other ‘leftists’ are influenced then programmed to be disruptive in society.
Conspiracy……maybe, maybe not…
@Harry – I went and looked at the switching frequency for EV power supplies, and sure enough it runs from 2.5kHz to 10kHz, with majority in the range of 8 to 10kHz, right smack in human hearing range. The motors must be the limiting factor here, switchers usually run at much higher frequencies.
Wild Bill – Switch mode power supplies have typically operated in frequencies from 100kHz to well into the MHz, but for running high power motors you want to be somewhat resonant. You can feed a motor PWM and without changing the duty cycle, but varying the frequency, can hit frequencies that are more efficient because they resonate with the motor. With motors that big you cannot use high frequencies and expect to tune them to the motor.
When I was a kid, I could walk through the neighborhood and tell who had the TV on. Not because I would hear the program, but I could hear very high-pitched whine emanating from the house. My friends never heard it.
Every one is a negative energy sink. Requiring more energy to produce and maintain than they are capable of producing over it’s lifetime.