An excellent editorial on the false promise of wind power.
Vermont is on the move ...to common sense . I listened to Blittersdorf at the Addison county Democrats meeting a month ago,. He does not believe in adverse health effects of noise and gets angry when confronted with the power of MRI imaging to demonstrate brain responses when humans are exposed to very low frequencies (8 Herz). He calls people anti wind zealots when proper questions regarding emissions saving and definition of Public Good are sent to him. He wants 3000 MW of wind for Vermont and believes we should all change our lifestyles to fit his agenda with no clear, scientific correlation as what that would do to climate change. .
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on October 5, 2015 at 9:38am
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The ultrasonic vibrations of one piece of equipment, though limited exposure, I was able to hear not the actual frequency, but the harmonics. Though with harmonics the amplitude is less, they are also present and generally unaccounted for, when looking only at the main frequency to be considered. I am sure this is not even being considered in the studies. These hidden noises also exist such as that nagging ringing in the ears, called a syndrome, but often resulting in surrounding harmonics in tune with a persons inner ear.
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on October 4, 2015 at 10:30pm
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That is pretty much what I am trying to say. Although I don't have your experience. My work involved vibration, high frequency noise from "sonicators", ventillation and ultracentrifuges and then deep freezers which I recently read emit a ton of IFN. But the chronic stress and sleeplessness were due to trying to get funding to survive in academia, and any long-term health effects will be a consequence of chemical exposures rather than noise.
That does not mean that I don't wish to spend the rest of my life in a natural soundscape, free of wind turbines (which today I am blessedly free of) or any other low frequency source. I do.
It is just that not everything fits into the IFN-vestibular mechanism model. In fact, Hanning suggested only about 5% does. I think we should take care of the 95% first. We should also make a stronger point that predictions are that 10% will be very badly affected by IWT under old rules/smaller turbines. The idea that IWT have gotten quieter is totally bogus. See Danish DELTA. Look at sound power. It is up by 6-10 dBA. That is equivalent to increasing the source by four times to more than 8 times. The other big myth is that 3 dB is barely detectible - it is a doubling of source!! When the frequency and temporal characteristics are different, it is very detectible.
Maine does have pretty different noise regs, but your former CDC director looked to Massachusetts - 10 dB above ambient and we will put them all next to highways. The "health" studies were from Sweden and Netherlands, which limited calculated immissions, and that is BELOW anticipated background AND well below regulatory limits for traffic ~ about 15 dBA below.
The Massachusetts policy allows IWT noise far above the severe annoyance zone and into the severe health effect zone.
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Any noise is capable of causing stress, and may be unnoticed while enduring it at any frequency.
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Having worked in the textile industry for 21 years as an electrician, in the weaving portion of the facilities, after moving through an air curtain into the room a large pressure was felt on the body as the machines, though not always in sync, at 400 repetitions minute. When in sync the noise pulses were more intense. At 95db average distributed volume obviously Hearing was one of the potential damages, as to other bodily damages internal or external I never experiences such. However it did affect the quality of sleep and length of sleep. 4 hours a day of sleep became the norm, though never restful. It was not until 6 months after leaving the job that I was able to return to 6 hours, and now after 10 years away, I have gradually returned to 6-8 hours. Though not thought at that time to be of any damage, it lead to stress which may have in part caused a stress related heart attack. (not fact of science, just some observations of my personal experiences with loud noise)
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I don't think that the imaging results are helpful to the case - the 8 Hz stimulation was way more than would be experienced from a wind turbine. And their latest publication is that IFN improves cognitive performance. As with McCunney claim about benefit of IFN massager, more recent claim about therapeutic use for Meneire's disease and this, there is a huge difference between acute exposure and chronic exposure. And I don't think we are doing victims any favors by dwelling on IFN when they complain of LOUD. In their bedroom. Just a neuroscientist's opinion, and I do acknowledge that there are those who live in well-insulated homes where the impact of these 2 plus acre fans is not audible, but rather the pressure changes resulting from 'wake/vortex shed'. And the evidence against noise as an "evil" pollution has been there from the 30s, and led to federal regs in the early 70s. The Mass DEP-DPH report actually has a ton of ills resulting from IFN, but again from higher acute exposures- it is China looking into this. We don't know the frequency that does harm, only that harm is done under what remains as legal levels of predicted immissions.
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Blittersdorf must have property rights which supercede everyone else's.How does he rate, and who gave him absolute authority?(nobody) He is just another greedy corporate type who wants his noisy, blinking junk in someone else's backyard where he will not have to deal with it. Vermont people seem more aware of the scam than most Mainers.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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