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Wind turbines and infrasound : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 16/6/2015

Wind turbines emit infrasound and low frequency noise. It is also well established that inappropriate levels of infrasound, regardless of the source, cause adverse health impacts.

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//One does not have to be a total cynic to wonder where are your references to back up a hitherto unheard claim.//

My references? Right here, ttbn:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=infrasound
Posted by Toni Lavis, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 7:33:04 PM
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Perhaps it would be germane for those such as David to read
www.epa.sa.gov.au/files/477912_infrasound.pdf

David
Posted by VK3AUU, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 9:56:35 AM
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Toni,

You've got the quantity, but not the quality. How about you point out where you got the one about diesel engines, to save me from having to wade through all that stuff? Did you really go through all those sites? I've scanned them, and found natural causes (weather e.g), whales, elephant calls and so on. A lot of stuff on the web is rubbish, and it's all too easy for you to chuck that much information at someone. Some of the sites say where infrasounds are heard, but they do not say what causes them. If you want to prove a point, you have to do better than that, Toni
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 10:01:38 AM
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David,

The S.A EPA is a government organisation which gives the goverment the answers it wants to hear. Wind farms are big business in S.A - a state second only to Tasmania in the rust bucket stakes. 13 years of Labor incompetence has lost businesses and jobs hand over fist. While the latest national unemployment figures have shown a slight drop, South Australia's unemployment has RISEN by 0.6%. We are losing two coal mines, and one power station. The government is desperate, and it will never admit that wind farms are causing distress in small country towns. They want more of the damn things. The leader of the Greens made a grand gesture last year by camping for a night under a turbine to 'prove' the noise wasn't a problem. That night was windless, but he never went back for another try, and still has the same pig-headed denial that turbine noise is a problem. That's the way things work here. And the EPA is a dud - a Labor lackey.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 10:21:35 AM
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For those who haven't yet mastered the use of search engines:

http://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/download/2036/1783

http://www.nvda.net/files/Infrasound_508.pdf

http://www.tsi.lv/sites/default/files/editor/science/Publikacii/ReStat_08/32.pdf

http://waubrafoundation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Willingale-Bernie-1980-infrasound-and-locomotives.pdf
Posted by Toni Lavis, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 10:30:19 AM
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Well some of the infrasound could be muted or funneled away inside large towers. Like say a power station cooling tower on steroids.

Built of metal and surrounded by heat retaining thermal double glazing; which would also soundproof them; the retained heat would travel skyward, possibly turning dozens of fans; and even more so in a dead calm!

And no better place for them than our vast empty arid inland.

And given we're never ever received so much as one single complaint from that anti-turbine community about cooling towers, one might expect solar thermal towers to result in a similar outcome. And not a single blade in sight or object to!

And arguably the only thing that could beat them as a source of rising hot air, would be the nations parliaments!?

Now if we could just harness that, we'd likely solve the energy shortfalls of the globe?
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 11:37:59 AM
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