BigGovernment- If just reading the words ‘wind turbines’ makes you feel physically sick then spare a thought for the people who have had them thrust into their lives. A new report shows living near a wind turbine may harm emotional wellbeing after scientists discovered that low frequency sounds generated by rotor blades trigger a part of the brain which senses danger.
According to the Daily Telegraph, brain scans show that even infrasound as low as 8hz – a whole octave below the traditional cut off point for human hearing – is still being picked up by the primary auditory cortex. This is the part of the brain which translates sounds into meaning.
Tony Abbott has balls. Can we hire him to do the same things in the US?
Because Obama doesn’t have any.
Y’know, there are islands in the North Sea (such as the Shetland Islands) which have no way of getting power from the mainland, and they use wind power generators to electrify the whole island.
However, the islands are small and the wind always blows.
THERE they make sense.
The abominable contraptions kill so many migratory waterfowl, raptors and even hummingbirds, I have to wonder when someone will finally sue to have them removed under the Endangered Species Act.
Imagine the conflict in the minds of the radical enviro-wackos. This is a textbook example of both “the law of unintended consequences” and “hoisted on your own petard”.
If you’ve had the displeasure of driving through an area where a bunch of these monstrosities have been built, then you know what an eyesore they are, especially at night when all the red lights atop each turbine flash in unison. I’d rather live near a coal fired plant than among a bunch of turbines.
…except when the safety valves lift….
Who knew that Crazy Joe has turbine brain!
Is this a perpetual motion machine?
The big fans get wind from the small fan then make power to run the small fan?
I had a similar idea for a sailboat, but I can’t find the drawings … it was … like … a big fucking deal!
And they probably rotate at a higher RPM above the infra bass audio range.
Who knew that Crazy Uncle Joe even had a brain?
Who the hell put a wind turbine in my head when I wasn’t looking?!
I’ll add this to the building collection of studies demonstrating the negative health affects of wind energy:
Alec Salt and James Kaltenbach. “Infrasound from Wind Turbines Could Affect Humans.” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society. 31:4:296-302. 2011.http://bst.sagepub.com/content/31/4/296
Michael Nissenbaum, Jeffrey Armanini, Christopher Hanning. “Effects of industrial wind turbine noise on sleep and health.” Noise and Health. 14:60. 2012. P 237-243.
Jeffry Lichtenhan and Alec Salt. “Amplitude modulation of audible sounds by non-audible sounds.” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. Published by Acoustical Society of America. Vol 19. 2014.http://oto2.wustl.edu/cochlea/LichtenhanAMASA.pdf
Mark Roberts. Et. Al. “Evaluation of the Scientific Literature on the Health Effects Associated with Wind Turbines and Low Frequency Sound.” Prepared for Wisconsin Public Service Commission. 2009. P 35-36.http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/environmental-health/documents/wind-turbine-wisconsin-assessment.pdf
John Harrison. “Wind Turbine Noise.” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society. 31:256. 2011. P 12. http://bst.sagepub.com/content/31/4/256
Nate Seltenrich. “Wind Turbines: A Different Kind of Noise?” Environmental Health Perspectives. 122:1. A20. 2014. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/122/1/ehp.122-A20.pdf
Daniel Shepherd, David McBride, David Welch, Erin Hill. “Evaluating the impact of wind turbine noise on health-related quality of life.” Noise and Health. 13:54. 2011. P 333-339. http://www.noiseandhealth.org/text.asp?2011/13/54/333/85502
Carmen Krogh. “A Self-reporting Survey: Adverse Health Effects, Industrial Wind Turbines (IWT) and the Need for Vigilance Monitoring.” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society. 31:334. 2011.http://bst.sagepub.com/content/31/4/334
Jerry Punch, Richard James, and Dan Pabst. “Wind Turbine Noise: What Audiologists Should Know.” Audiology Today. July-August 2010. P 27.http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/img/WindTurbineNoise.pdf
Arline Bonzaft. “The Noise from Wind Turbines: Potential Adverse Impacts on Children’s Well-Being.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 31:291. July 20, 2011. http://bst.sagepub.com/content/31/4/291
Also note John Etherington, a Thomas Huxley Medalist at the Royal College of Science and a former co-editor of the International Journal of Ecology, who documented the negative health effects of wind farms in The Wind Farm Scam (2009).
Of course, as the pro-wind advocates have said, “there is no scientific proof that demonstrates that wind farms cause negative effects.” In a strictly scientific sense, perhaps not. But since when does that matter?
It has never, ever been demonstrated in any peer-review, referee academic journal or randomized clinical trial or long-term double-blind study that if you thrust your hand into a boiling cauldron of tar, your hand will get burned. Not a single study (find me one!). So, I guess in this approach, there is “no scientific proof whatsoever” that you will get burned by thrusting your hand into a boiling cauldron of tar.
And, there has never, ever been any peer-review, referee academic journal or randomized clinical trial or long-term double-blind study that if you lay your head under the tire of a semi-truck and drive over it, you will die. Not a single study! Thus, there is absolutely no scientific evidence that driving a truck over your head will kill a human being. It is pseudo-science to say otherwise!
And in the same way, we are told that there is absolutely no strict scientific proof that wind farm “causes” negative health effects on people (and plants, worms, birds, bats, etc.) – as if this is somehow significant.
How long will people be fooled by this absurd philosophical, empiricist positivism that masquerades as “science”?
Please read this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wind-farms-worst-idea-since-cash-clunkers-jamin-h%C3%BCbner