For those unfortunates forced to live with incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound, the cause of the sleep deprivation they suffer is no mystery. Moreover, a menagerie of domestic and wild animals stuck next to wind turbines suffer similar effects, including well-documented increases in the stress hormone cortisol (see our post here). Dr Mariana … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration Causing Harm to Humans & Animals Alike
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Wealth of Scientific Evidence Shows Wind Turbine Noise Wrecks Sleep & Health
The evidence proving the unnecessary damage done to wind farm neighbours by the noise generated by giant industrial wind turbines is mounting by the day: Germany's Max Planck Institute has identified sub-audible infrasound as the cause of stress, sleep disruption and more (see our post here); and a Swedish group have shown that it's the … Continue reading Wealth of Scientific Evidence Shows Wind Turbine Noise Wrecks Sleep & Health
Top Sleep Specialist Slams ‘Nocebo’ Nonsense: Wind Turbine Noise Obvious Cause of Sleep Deprivation
Dr Wayne Spring is a sleep specialist with a lifetime’s experience of dealing with those suffering from sleep deprivation from all manner of causes. Recently, Dr Spring went into print, slamming those from the wind-cult who spend their time deriding the wind industry’s victims, rather than listening. One of its victims, who will never be … Continue reading Top Sleep Specialist Slams ‘Nocebo’ Nonsense: Wind Turbine Noise Obvious Cause of Sleep Deprivation
Wind Farm Shutdown Allows Neighbours to Sleep Comfortably for 1st Time in Years
As time goes by, the irrefutable evidence mounts that incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound is a hazard to human health; and no evidence is more compelling than the negative effect wind turbine noise and vibration has on the critical need for sleep. The World Health Organisation has viewed “noise-induced sleep disturbance … as … Continue reading Wind Farm Shutdown Allows Neighbours to Sleep Comfortably for 1st Time in Years
Illinois Appeals Board Slams 127 Turbine Wind Farm Proposal Due to Excess Noise Health Effects & Loss of Neighbours’ Property Values
**** It doesn't usually take the law long to catch up with good old common sense, as this decision by Illinois' Bureau County Zoning Board of Appeals attests. Zoning board denies wind turbines applications Bureau County Republican Barb Amrein 30 December 2015 Bureau County Zoning Board of Appeals finds application to build 127 industrial wind … Continue reading Illinois Appeals Board Slams 127 Turbine Wind Farm Proposal Due to Excess Noise Health Effects & Loss of Neighbours’ Property Values
Germany’s Wind Farm Noise Victims Detail Their Daily Misery
**** One of the myths pedalled by Australia’s self-appointed wind farm noise, sleep and health ‘expert’ (a former tobacco advertising guru) is that the known and obvious adverse health impacts from incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound are a cooked-up “phenomenon”, exclusive to the English speaking world. Trouble with that little tale is that’s … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Farm Noise Victims Detail Their Daily Misery
Scientific Proof: Wind Turbine Noise Causes Wind Farm Worker’s Sleep & Health to Suffer
Among the growing list of what’s getting to the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is the fact that – despite their relentless efforts to cover up both the work and the results – highly skilled people are working flat out around the world to discover the precise mechanism that causes the adverse health effects … Continue reading Scientific Proof: Wind Turbine Noise Causes Wind Farm Worker’s Sleep & Health to Suffer
Curt Devlin: Details a Decade of Turbine Torture
**** Curt Devlin hales from Fairhaven, Massachusetts U.S.A. He was formerly a Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Tulane University. He revved up against the great wind power fraud back in 2007, when a wind power outfit set out to spear a clutch of giant fans into the undisturbed and ecologically sensitive salt marshes … Continue reading Curt Devlin: Details a Decade of Turbine Torture
Turkish Court Shuts Down 50 Turbines: Yaylaköy Residents Delighted at 1st Chance to Sleep in Years
**** One of the myths pedalled by Australia’s self-appointed wind farm noise, sleep and health 'expert' (a former tobacco advertising guru) is that the known and obvious adverse health impacts from incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound are a cooked-up “phenomenon”, exclusive to the English speaking world. Trouble with that little tale is that’s … Continue reading Turkish Court Shuts Down 50 Turbines: Yaylaköy Residents Delighted at 1st Chance to Sleep in Years
Wind Turbine Noise Deprives Farmers and Truckers of Essential Sleep & Creates Unnecessary Danger for All
**** Deprive someone of a decent night’s sleep and the wheels start to fall off pretty quickly. In the absence of quality sleep, it’s not long and people start suffering mood swings, impaired mental function, lose capacity for abstract thought and – if operating heavy machinery or driving – become a danger to workmates and/or … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise Deprives Farmers and Truckers of Essential Sleep & Creates Unnecessary Danger for All
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