Friday, April 8, 2011

Wind Turbines - Impacts upon those residing close to them

There is currently debate over the health impacts of renewable energy generators, wind turbines, on the health of humans in Australia as installations are taking off in these times of carbon tax threats.



Installations of "wind farms" are upsetting local residents because of a number of reasons including how they look, fears of negative impacts on the environment (wildlife), noise, health, and having a "not in my backyard" mentality.

According to those affected they have sleep patterns disrupted and symptoms such as headaches.

The counter argument is that in parts of Europe that already have these wind turbine installations people living near them don't make these sorts of claims.

I don't live near any of these...the closest site that I know about is about 2-3 hours away from me off the side of a highway, so I can't really make any comment besides I like renewable power supplies, that are 'clean' and these seem to represent this...however I do recall arguments about impacts of microwaves and cellular phone transmitting towers, so for the sake of the image of Green Energy, this needs to be done right...with all impacts verified and be eliminated or minimized.
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19 comments:

  1. tissue rejectionApril 9, 2011 at 12:11 AM

    Wow, that's pretty interesting.

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  2. EldirApril 9, 2011 at 12:22 AM

    There are just being paranoiac of the unknown. There's no harm in wind turbines. Ask people living in the Netherlands how did they cope with so many windmills ;)

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  3. AtleyApril 9, 2011 at 12:26 AM

    The only bad thing about wind turbines is that they dont work with no wind... and they kill birds. other then that, im all for them!

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  4. jamalApril 9, 2011 at 1:12 AM

    yeah...i used to live in belgium and we have a few of them.
    But the good thing about them is that we put em a bit further down into the sea on a few islands

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  5. D22 ZoneApril 9, 2011 at 1:21 AM

    This is awesome post! Love it! keep up the great work!

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  6. Electric AddictApril 9, 2011 at 1:27 AM

    cool post, very interesting

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  7. AnonymousApril 9, 2011 at 7:08 AM

    Ugh, people always complain about new shinny things -.-

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  8. jopjopjopApril 9, 2011 at 7:33 AM

    very interesting

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  9. Do it yourself GadgetsApril 9, 2011 at 7:38 AM

    i think some of them make strange noises but still windmills are great

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  10. Hardy PaceApril 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM

    they are inconsistent that's their main flaw

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  11. LeizerApril 9, 2011 at 11:39 AM

    inconsistent but clean

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  12. Biff TannerApril 9, 2011 at 2:06 PM

    They are Loud very loud.

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  13. GraftedApril 9, 2011 at 5:34 PM

    Interesting

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  14. edApril 9, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    sounds like exaggeration

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  15. N4M3L3SSApril 10, 2011 at 1:32 AM

    pfff might as well keep burning gas then?

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  16. TunerollApril 10, 2011 at 1:51 AM

    Wow N4M3L3SS ahahaha you got me crackin'.

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  17. GApril 10, 2011 at 7:04 AM

    haters gonna hate

    ...following

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  18. n0kS Phr33d0mApril 10, 2011 at 8:56 AM

    Hi man, the only problem about the wind parks is that some of that turbines kill birds. But for the noise, etc... I think it's just a way to exagerate as I live near a wind tourbines and I've no problems with that ^^

    Following! ^^

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