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Date: November 14, 2014 at 15:29:53
From: BJ, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Wind Turbine Noise Pollution |
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"Sue Hobart and her husband built their dream home in 2007 on a quiet, wooded lot outside Falmouth, Massachusetts. Five years later they abandoned it. Less than 1,500 feet from the empty house stands a mammoth wind turbine erected three years ago by Notus Clean Energy. Three blades mounted upon the 262-foot tower sweep an area of the sky equal to 1.3 acres, the size of a football field. They are visible through the forest from the house’s meticulously landscaped yard.
But the problem with the property wasn’t the degraded view—at least not for the Hobarts. The problem was the noise. Shortly after the turbine switched on in 2010, Sue began experiencing headaches, dizziness, insomnia, and a ringing in her ears. When she noticed the symptoms briefly disappeared during trips out of town, she began attributing them to the arrival of the turbine. Within two years she was ready to leave.
Fellow Falmouth resident Annie Hart Cool can relate. “We live on two and a half acres of land, and we can’t use it because of the noise,” she says. Cool and her husband live near one of two city-owned turbines installed in 2010 and 2011 that power a nearby wastewater treatment facility, with the excess energy providing a source of revenue for the city. “We were all so excited about it until it turned on, and then we realized we couldn’t live with it,” Cool says.
In all, 41 Falmouth families have formally complained to city leaders—as have countless other wind-farm neighbors in countries including Australia, Canada, and England. Meanwhile, a small but growing body of evidence has begun to suggest that the health impacts of wind farms can be very real.
Large-scale wind turbines are a relatively recent innovation, so the body of peer-reviewed research addressing the potential impacts of their unique brand of sound is sparse and particularly unsettled. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests a connection between turbines and a constellation of symptoms including nausea, vertigo, blurred vision, unsteady movement, and difficulty reading, remembering, and thinking.24
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Date: November 17, 2014 at 18:55:42
From: Steve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Wind Turbine Advanced Design |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB5CawKfE2M |
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Here is another design in the race to catch the wind.
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Date: November 17, 2014 at 20:28:04
From: Steve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Wind Turbine Advanced Design |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngLp6tdv6NA
6 times more efficient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oSd6lZLazs
10 designs
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Date: November 15, 2014 at 09:33:21
From: Steve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Wind Turbine Noise Pollution |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUPlHx_2gw |
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Falmouth is on the Cape, they could have built the turbines a mile off shore and no one would hear them.
These open prop type are old noisy and inefficient technology.
There are be better ways to collect wind energy now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGeCyB92LY
2nd segment
Wind Lens up to 3 X more efficient.
New Basket type at link quiet better and can be used for home use.
More progress is expected in making these wind catchers even better.
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Date: November 15, 2014 at 13:34:42
From: BJ, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Wind Turbine Noise Pollution |
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cool
Didn't Tesla have a wind generator?
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