Noise and Health
In a nutshell wind turbines make noise as the blades turn.
Even if you can't physically see the turbines you may be
able to hear them. The prevailing wind runs from the west
to the east so although the Gedling end of Nottingham Road
will bear the brunt of the visual impact the centre of the
village will bear the brunt of the noise.
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Note on noise at night
There is obviously less noise at night so noises such as
turbines can be more easily identified and heard. Some of
you will be familiar with the occasional noise at night
of the fan at the sewage treatment works, (we have reports
that it wakes people as far afield as Lambley Lane). If
you do get woken by this annoyance then just imagine being
woken nightly by the ever-present and closer turbines.
Frits van den Berg, a physicist at the University
of Groningen in The Netherlands, studied noise
levels around a German facility of 17 turbines. In a paper
published in the November 2004 Journal of Sound and Vibration,
he found that at night, because the surface air is often
more still than the air at the height of the blades, the
noise from the turbines is 15 to 18 dB higher than during
the day and carries further. He noted that residents
1.9 kilometers (6,200 feet or 1.2 miles) away expressed
strong annoyance with noise
from the facility.
Is your home within 1.9km? Unfortunately
almost all (maybe 98%) of BJ homes are with 1.9km of the
turbines.
Read his paper ...
Effects
of wind profile at night on wind turbine sound
Wind turbines produce two types of sound – normal
Aerodynamic Noise and Low Frequency Infrasound.
Research has shown that the Low Frequency Sound causes extreme duress to a number of people who are sensitive to its effects. People living and working near wind turbines have been known to experience health problems including sleep deprivation, headaches, irritability, and stress.
Wind farm developers cannot now play down any claims regarding
health problems or state that there have been no studies carried
out by any professional bodies to substantiate the world wide health
claims. The individual stories of people living close to
turbines are upsetting, it is beyond belief that Severn Trent Water
can think of placing turbines so close to so many residents who
may be similarly affected.
In February 2009 details of the Government sponsored Salford University Study on Noise (Research into Aerodynamic Modulation of Wind Turbine Noise URN 07/1235) finally entered the public domain, following sterling work by Dr. Lee Moroney, Directory of Planning and Dr. John Constable, Directory of Policy and Research. To read the findings of this survey, please click the following: Wind Turbine Noise Complaint Survey Data
In depth studies have been carried out by Professor Mariana
Alves-Pereira of Lusófona University, Lisbon and Nuno Castelo Branco
M.D. of the Centre of Human Performance, Alves, Portugal
on noise generated from wind turbines on a family living close to
four wind turbines. The family were diagnosed with Vibro Acoustic
Disease (VAD). Research into VAD has been ongoing
since 1980. The sources of VAD vary from industrial complexes
to high volume motorways, and even aircraft cabins. Pereira and Branco
made a presentation at the Inter Noise Conference held in Istanbul,
Turkey in August 2007. Read their presentation ...
Public health and noise exposure: the importance of low frequency noise Dr. A. Harry has written a paper examining the issue of possible adverse effects of wind turbines on health and presents a preliminary community survey ...
Wind Turbines: Noise and Health Nina Pierpont, MD, PhD, a clinical and environmental physician and scientist from Malone, New York, in her paper Wind Turbine Syndrome states 'Wind turbine Syndrome likely will become an industrial plague. ...' Wind Turbine Syndrome
A paper by B. J. Frey, MA and P. J. Hadden, BSc, FRICS not
only reviews the acoustics of wind turbines and the adverse
impact of noise on health, but also includes a discussion
of human rights issues. In relation to the adverse health
effects, the paper considers the basic violation of human
rights, if Government puts more importance on achieving
an ideological goal than safeguarding the basic human rights
of its People. Read their paper ... Noise
Radiation from Wind Turbines Installed near Homes: Effects
on Health
Read an interesting report 'Location Location Location'
- an Investigation into Wind Farms and Noise by the Noise
Association ...Location
Location Location (pdf)
Yet another Lincolnshire wind farm is causing noise problems for
local residents. Read about it in Spalding
Today
Professors Graham Harding, Pamela Harding and Arnold Wilkins recently published a paper on Wind Turbine Flicker and Photosensitive Epilepsy. Please read their paper ...Wind turbines, flicker and photosensitive epilepsy: Characterising the flashing that my precipitate seizures and optimising guidelines to prevent them Carmen Krogh, a retired pharmacist from Bonnechere Valley Township in Canada, speaks of her experience of the health effects of wind turbines. Woman tells a tale of turbine torment |