Wind turbine syndrome dismissed visceral vibratory vestibular disturbance illness brain damage

[Parsec994a]

I wonder how magical you'd still think those shadows were if they were on your windows of your house

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@Parsec994a You don't build turbines between housing and the sun, wind farm designers increasingly use special design tools to plot the shadow arcs and place turbines so they don't fall on occupied buildings - alas there have been some appaling blunders in the past involving turbines built with houses within the shadow fall, the houses are unlivable. Shadow flicker is the only real possible issue with turbines, we are going to need renewable energy as the oil runs out, period.

[zoltanapril42]

@ChuffChuffWoo Nob Head, put a tent underneath it and camp out for a few weeks, you will smell like a troll and look like a greenie.

Seriously these things are causing severe health issues in Australia and impacting the health of the communities they are in, we need the IPCC to spend some of our tax to do a study or better yet start up a new acronymn IPWW

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@zoltanapril42 "impacting the health of the communities they are in" Churchill said that lies would circle the world before the facts have got out of bed - alas 'wind turbine health effects' is the NIMBY misinformation factories biggest victory in their acts of treason against the enviroment and humanity - hanging is too good for them.

[sakidd1]

They are stunning but cant say d want to live next to one!

[windfarm9]

we bought a house in the irish midlands during the boom to leave behind the city life of noise and enjoy a life in the peacefull countryside. after 5 years of renovating and keeping up with mortgage payments a company came along looking to put up 9 125 metre tall turbines around our area one of them 1200m from the house.

I,m not against getting power from the wind but everybodys got to win

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@ "explain how climate change will place towering industrial eyesores" sums up your real position, that is you don't like the look of them, so you keep inventing reasons to imply they won't work. No trees were taken down nor access roads were built to enable the construction of this wind farm, existing farm tracks were used. The turbines have a life of 25 years after which they will be taken down and recycled, the foundations which were made using stone mined on site will be covered over.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@RandomConcepts @RandomConcepts Climate change will destroy the landscape, renewable energy will defend it. Some older designs of turbines let the blades pass very close to the tower, creating a problem, but not any more, as the rotors are now tilted back a little to provide plenty of clearance between the tower and blade tips. Turbines look just fine. We wouldn't have the national grid if previous generations had been so keen to preserve the look of the countryside, ditto railways, roads etc.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@RandomConcepts Climate change will destroy the landscape, renewable energy will defend it. Some older designs of turbines let the blades pass very close to the tower, creating a problem, but not any more, as the rotors are now tilted back a little to provide plenty of clearance between the tower and blade tips.

...Problem solved!!!!

[ChuffChuffWoo]

Sadly there does appear to be a pandemic of mass hysteria breaking out due to the 'fear of the new' that pervades any new technology. Sadly 'great big scary monster wind turbine big wavy arms thingy syndrome' does appear to be a problem amongst people who become convinced that anything bad that confidently happens to them after a wind farm is built nearby 'must' be due to those new fangled windy farm thingys...

[MrThoughtCrime1]

i hope someone builds some turbines nextdoor to you so you can enjoy the "magic" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 25 years

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@MrThoughtCrime1 Funnily enough, I'm about to go house hunting, and top of the list of 'must have' is a view of a wind farm, first house I owned had a great view of a restored and working windmill, and it didn't trouble us, and nor will the modern ones.

[MrThoughtCrime1]

@ChuffChuffWoo funnily enough, i dont believe you. your chocalate box image of a restored windmill is a million miles a way from the reality of living next to a wind farm. however the real point is you have the choice to move next to one. we just get the things dumped on us. don't even mentioning the planning system.

you can buy my house, views of three wind farms, all within 2km. sounds like your kind of heaven? obviously you wont expect to get it at anything less than "pre turbine" value

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@MrThoughtCrime1 Anti wind turbine NIMBYs ALWAYS choose NOT TO BELIEVE anything POSITIVE about wind power - trapping themselves in their own negative world not shared by the LARGE MAJORITY of the uk population. We are all going to have to adapt to change as the cheap fuel runs out so stop WHINGING about these HARMLESS machines and GET A LIFE you NUMPTYs -er I mean NIMBYs :-)))

[MrThoughtCrime1]

@ChuffChuffWoo Ah the stand wind fascist reply of nimby. Not being pro wind power does not make me a nimby. Same as not agreeing with you doesn't not make me a numpty.

The large majority do not live anywhere near wind farms. The large majority who do would rather the things not be there. You choose not to see anything negative about wind power yet you know nothing of living next door the things. Be careful what you wish for and don't assume that your idea of a dream home is every elses.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@MrThoughtCrime1 I know everything about living with wind power, I'm in agreement with the findings of a BBC local news reporter who went around interviewing other locals on their doorsteps about the wind farm, no one had a issue with the gentle giants. My ideal location would be near Concord's flight path (beautiful thing Concorde!), next to a wind farm, and overlooking the Sydney Harbor Bridge :-)))) ...but alas people would probably worry about possible noise issues....with the wind farm...!

[MrThoughtCrime1]

@ChuffChuffWoo Knowing everything you will know that your windfarm, Westhill, is small. From what i've read, only five turbines, 49m hub height, 75m total, 1.3MW each. I live under 17 x 110m units and 5 x 125m units, 2-3MW. Westhill is also community project, everyone effected shares the benefits as a form of compensation. Prehaps that explains why no one complaind in the BBC report. Normally the land owner takes all the benefits, roughly 12k per turbine per annum and all the neighbours suffer.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@MrThoughtCrime1 Yes we need more Westmills, the community have adopted this farm as their own - and that's done wonders for curing the mass hysteria that seams to happen when communities have a wind farm just 'turn up' amongst them. Lots of little Westmills here and there look ok too. 400 turbines on a mountain would be a wee bit oppressive too look at, but groups of three or so for the next 25-30 years to get us to cheap atomic power will be fine. People would miss Westmill wind when it goes!

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@ChuffChuffWoo ...and thanks to all those people who predict the end of the world for any community that has a wind farm built nearby, I'll might be able to get my 'wind farm view dream house' cheaper, but I need to hurry, proposed wind farms slightly depress the value of houses due to all the scaremongering, but house values spring back up again once the turbines are up and running and people see how harmless they are.

[syranmbenza]

Isn't it amazing how no one who has a turbine on their land ever complains of health problems. Magic cure = the fee you get from the companies for hosting them. This is nothing but local politics of envy translating into psychosomatic whinging.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@syranmbenza Agreed!!

[ChuffChuffWoo]

Respond to this video... "Isn't it amazing how no one who has a turbine on their land ever complains of health problems. Magic cure = the fee you get from the companies for hosting them. This is nothing but local politics of envy translating into psychosomatic whinging." Couldn't agree more!

[bonnie43uk]

These paricular wind turbines are a constant source of wonder to me, i can see them from my flat 6 miles away in Swindon, they never fail to amaze me. A wonderful sight.

[AvalonBronte]

Wind turbines cause ingrowing toenails - it's official!!! New from the NIMBY ministry of misinformation...! ;-))

[minitrueful]

There is no way that the sound recorder in your video cam, or your ears, can detect the frequency of noise that these Wind Turbines Generate - so this video does not support a valid argument. See, Wind Turbines generate pressure waves (i.e., sound) at frequencies that are below both the Human or VideoCam's capacity for detecting: it's called infrasound. However, if you had a home near these things, let me gaurauntee you that they would shake everything in your house and create quite a din.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@minitrueful

"There is no way that the sound recorder in your video cam, or your ears, can detect the frequency of noise that these Wind Turbines Generate" Agreed - because it's not there! some older designs of turbines let the blades pass very close to the tower, creating a problem, but not any more, as the rotors are now tilted back a little to provide plenty of clearance between the tower and blade tips.

...Problem solved!!!!

[ChuffChuffWoo]

Some older designs of turbines aren't as quiet as these. If there is a wind farm planned near you and you are worried about it, find out what turbines they want to put up and if possible, go and visit a wind farm with the very same turbines, if they are not as quiet, then start asking questions - why are they not using the quietest designs if they are near homes. These turbines are 'Bonus/Siemens units, Enercon units are a good choice too. I'm all for wind power done properly.

[rextundra]

With over 100,000 wind turbines world wind we are still waiting for the first coal plant to close. But we can follow the billions of dollars spent on this modern day feel good project. We can also track the increase in the cost of electricity by having our government force us to buy a product that can not compete on its own. windpowerfacts.info

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@rextundra No coal plant will close, but all coal plants throttle back when the wind is blowing, reducing emissions by reducing fuel use, turbines are there to reduce carbon emissions.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

Respond to this video... PS the rise in electricity prices is cause by big increases in fuel prices and energy industry profiteering - but it's easy to just blame it on the turbines

[SmallWindTurbines]

nice video clip

[beartaker]

i have 19 on my farm in australia and live 800 meters away... i can't tell the difference

[romanosalvatore]

I think they are beautiful and they are a great way to produce clean energy. People should stop crying about the "noise" (which I can't even hear) and understand this is an effort for the best!

[datzfast]

i diu a personal visit, my home air conditioner was more noise.

[Hydra773]

If you like them so much live right next door to one then talk. you were probably only there for 15 minutes at most. try living near one or staying near one for a week.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@Hydra773 Spent a week camped at Westmill, in a TENT and still not a problem. Traffic noise on the A420 is much louder.

[Hydra773]

@ChuffChuffWoo

Look up wind turbine sicknesses, in one community it was found that 20% of the population became sick from the turbines. Now at first this seems silly but more and more research is pointing to health problems from the waves emitted by large wind turbines. These ones in your video are not large in comparison to the big ones that are made.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@Hydra773 Waves? do they mean sound waves??

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@Hydra773 No 'wind turbine sickness mass hysteria syndrome' near our local wind farm - none at all.

[ZaxL89]

poor nature!

[beercanjunkie]

Wind Turbines are typically built on agricultural land anyways.

Not exactly unspoiled wilderness to begin with.

[beercanjunkie]

Wind Turbines are typically built on agricultural land anyways.

Not exactly unspoiled wilderness to begin with.

[Destroythetyrant]

Theres a wind farm possibly coming up near where I live. I'm kinda scared that it will cause health affects but I really don't know what to believe.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@Destroythetyrant Come and visit ours! Any idea what turbines they are putting up? Siemens, Repower, Enercon, Vestas, Gamesa, etc.?? This will be easy enough to find out, then listen to youtube clips of the same turbines - preferably ones where the sound hasn't been boosted to a hundred times is actual value, better still, go and visit a similarly equipped wind farm, and enjoy your new neighbors to be in their full and most magnificent glory, and no, they wont make your hair fall out! ;-))

[willoak87]

I think they`re pretty too. They look like giant birds. There is a huge farm on highway 10 north of shelburne, and its always a featured experience of our road trips.

[robbie5380]

but there barely turning. we where erecting these just off the coast of mostyn and they could be heard over 2 miles away if they where turning at full speed

[ChuffChuffWoo]

They're turning at maximum speed. This particular make of turbine is a 'two speed machine' one speed for low wind and another for moderate to higher winds, higher winds means more wind noise in the trees, these are quiet machines. The only way to lessen any noise would be to chop down those noisy trees!

[hungrooster]

Even in the great united states we cannot have our cake and eat it too. In order to decrease our carbon based energy dependance sacrifices must be made. To some, windmills are an eyesore but it sure beats a cloud of smog that damages our lungs and gives our children asthma. Think about that!

[tps1710]

i believe renewable sources of energy are the only option to take into account. countries like Spain could provide solar energy to the rest of europe if every roof was panelled

[curingaging00]

@tps1710 Indeed, Ambient Air Pollution, deforestation from coal mining, pollution from oil spills, rise of acidic oceans, and Climate Change are the price we will pay as a human race as well as the world's ecosystems if we were to fail in our quest to be a civilization which is free from fossil fuels.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

Here here!

[JeroenSaccheri]

I think a lot more effort should be made for sustainable energy resources like this. I don't understand what the problem with it is. I understand if a windmill was installed in the middle of the rapidly shrinking amazon rainforest, but I believe that windmills are a pollution free option to reducing carbon emissions. I'm not tryin to start an argument, but I think that windmills are very useful and have few drawbacks.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

Windmills are beautiful!!!

[darlac123]

Are you a scientist? Of course not.

[mvlty]

Look at his profile you dumbshit! He most certainly IS a scientist!

[ChuffChuffWoo]

Not a doctor, but an engineer. Are you either of these? Or just a NIMBY. Come on, lets have some common sense here, how can wind powered electrical equipment cause a problem when the same technology is all around us. Come to think of it, what would a doctor know about electrical equipment anyway?

[ChuffChuffWoo]

...Not a scientist?? -shows just how little you know, yet another mindless insult from someone who has nothing to say, I'd love some scientific debate on this, but so far there has been none that stand up to common sense, never mind scientific review.

[mama146]

Submitter is an arrogant idiot. Are you a doctor? I don't think so.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

....come to think of it, why can't anti wind NIMBY's make a comment with out degenerating in to personal insults, have they nothing of any intelligence to debate with?? A town nearby has a huge power station in it, yet I hear no mention of 'Power Station Syndrome', Alas 'Windmill Syndrome' simply fails the test of common sense and reason. So alas I just don't buy it.