Wind turbine syndrome dismissed visceral vibratory vestibular disturbance illness brain damage

If you like the video, rate it! ;-)) "Wind turbine syndrome". This is my response to the idea that wind turbines somehow generate some sort of health damaging 'inaudible sound' . A wind turbine does not contain any type of technology that is not found in things like electric trains (electrical equipment), aircraft (aerodynamics), concrete, steel, plastics, computers, wiring (the buildings we live in), and so on. Wind turbines are essentially giant table fans, with the wind pushing the blades around faster then they naturally want to turn under electric power, so power flows out of them, not in to them. Alas since tramping around the wind farm field, I now have sore feet, and have gone down with a cold, I'm sure the proponents of 'Wind Turbine Table Fan Syndrome' would argue that because my sore feet and cold probably would not have happened had I not visited that chilly windy wind farm site, that the wind farm is responsible for my current condition! - this seams to be the fundamental underpinning logic behind windmill syndrome. Wind turbines are elegant and harmless machines that are new to our lives, sadly like any new technology there is always the possibility of mass hysteria of some sort, often stirred up by people of with hidden agendas (Professor Mis. Lead says "Turbines/high speed trains/Hamburgers with salad) will ruin our health". I remember the mass hysteria that comes with everything from microwave ovens to the coming of the steam train. Turbines produce no emissions and therefore cannot harm people. Let common sense rule, turbines are benign and harmless. If you like the video, don't forget to rate it -Enjoy! :-))

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[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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]

@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!

[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]

@ "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.