Solid Science Supports the Reality of ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’

Written by Tom Harris on . Posted in Current News

As listeners heard in the past two episodes of The Other Side of the Story (here and here), people living close to 60-story high industrial wind turbines report a range of very real physical symptoms ranging from mild to severe, in some cases debilitating. Among the symptoms reported are insomnia, chest pain, heart palpitations, back pain, fatigue, skin infections, stomach ulcers, headaches, decreased vision, dizziness, severe joint and muscular pain, and neurological disturbances.

But wind turbine proponents say this is merely their imagination, a “nocebo,” they call it; in other words, a psychosomatic illness brought on by worrying about being made sick by the turbines.

To help us understand what science actually says about this, Tom is joined today by Professor Mariana Alves-Pereira, an expert in the effects of infrasound (sound below the audible spectrum) on humans. Mariana holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the New University of Lisbon in Portugal. She is currently an Associate Professor affiliated with Lusófona University in Lisbon, where she taught Biophysics and Biomaterials in health science programs, as well as Physics and Hygiene in workplace safety and health programs until 2016. Today, Mariana is co-founder and senior researcher at IARO -International Acoustics Research Organization, headquartered in New Zealand.

Mariana has been researching the biological response to infrasound and low-frequency noise since 1988, has received three scientific awards, and has authored and co-authored over 50 scientific publications. So, we are very fortunate to have her on the show today. Listen in to discover what wind turbine companies would rather you didn’t know!

Source: America Out Loud

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    Richard Greene

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    This was known decades ago

    The problem is infrasonic noise pulses for each rotation of a blade passing the supporting pylon. It can be louder inside a home than when measured outside. Sound meters with A weighting designed for noise ordinances do not capture infrasonic sounds — they are down over 50 dB below 20Hz., which is huge, because such low frequencies are npt believed to damage hearing..

    The pressure waves can travel for many miles and can even be measured 20 miles away on a quiet night with special underground equipment used to detect nuclear bomb testing.

    I belonged to an audio club in the 1960s and 1980s where members built DIY subwoofers for their stereo systems. The best one had 8 15″ drivers and easily produced high SPLs inside a home at 15Kz,

    *Under 20Hz. is infrasonic or subsonic)

    About 10% to 15% of club members found such loud bass playing music (actually carefully selected “boombox car CD rap songs”) caused some listeners to quickly get nauseous and we had to leave the home until the experiment and measurements ended. That subwoofer became an article in the top US audio magazine.

    I redesigned my own pair of six cubic foot subwoofers to roll off below 25Hz. to avoid the physical problems I had from infrasonic noise in my living room..

    Imagine the effect when you are trying to sleep

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