"Wind Turbine Syndrome" Makes you Ill...

[CosmicFarmer]

Wind farms are now being shilled into obsolescence thanks to the sensitive people who complain that the wooshing turbine noise is giving them panic attacks and making them ill.

Wind farms can cause noise problems finds study - Telegraph

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My Thoughts..
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The periodic noise of a fan at night helps me sleep through the chaotic cacophony that the highway nearby emits. I think that scientists will turn a blind eye to my red eye caused by sleepless nights made by motorists with faulty mufflers. 3 in the morning and the street racers come out, none of them actually have mufflers I am convinced. The mufflers fell off long ago. Maybe the scientists wont care that everyone near a highway is breathing in cancer fumes daily but oh sure they care about the constant (and i find it soothing) woosh of renewable energy. Actually, counting the wooshes per second gives you wind speed information without turning on any other device then your mind.

Oh, and what will those people say when they are starving thanks to their oil addiction's acid rain on the worlds crops? They will be begging for windmills then!
Crying over the wrong things

[jibbguy]

I learned, through a business venture in conventional alternative energy i am involved with:

That in the Galapagos Islands, a big wind farm that cost over $10 million to build, had to be dismantled after only about a year. The problem was the birds, who live only on these islands and are highly at risk for extinction, were flying right into the big blades and being killed in large numbers. Oops!

There are alternatives for standard Wind, that use actual turbine principals and not just big props. Thus the total diameters can be much smaller, and Excluders easily mounted. One would also think that the noise would be at a much different frequency (and lower amplitude).

FloDesign's jet engine-inspired wind turbine wins prizes | Green Tech - CNET News

I discovered today, that a link i had posted on this was removed on our Group. This is unusual, i am supposed to be the only one who can remove links that i put up on the wall

I remember that i made a Comment under the link that went like this:

All you budding Engineers out there, should consider what would happen if this concept was "stretched" to include multiple "stages" of concentrically smaller turbines on the same axis (each with their own "bypass" vents)... That could utilize the power from the previous stage's vortex mixed with the bypass vent input.

[sucahyo]

Wind farms are now being shilled into obsolescence thanks to the sensitive people who complain that the wooshing turbine noise is giving them panic attacks and making them ill.

Some people do bothered with periodic sound that can make them unable to sleep. However, it is also sign that they are unhealthy.

That in the Galapagos Islands, a big wind farm that cost over $10 million to build, had to be dismantled after only about a year. The problem was the birds, who live only on these islands and are highly at risk for extinction, were flying right into the big blades and being killed in large numbers. Oops!

I wonder why bladeless more efficient wind generator mentioned at other thread do not replace the conventional way...

[CosmicFarmer]

I do believe that those windmills could be dangerous to birds... and there are smarter alternatives... I like the vortex idea using stages, almost reminds me of the heating/cooling application of a controlled vortex, but I forgot the commercial name... A vortex with compressed air was split into a hot and a cold output and you could chain the outputs together and reach any temperature desired.

That FloDesign is a smart one!