{"id":8647,"date":"2010-05-30T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kselected.com\/?p=8647"},"modified":"2012-02-11T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T09:10:00","slug":"youre-wondering-what-its-like-living-next-to-wind-turbines-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/youre-wondering-what-its-like-living-next-to-wind-turbines-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re wondering what it\u2019s like living next to wind turbines? (United Kingdom)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following was written by nurse-midwife Jane Davis (Lincolnshire, UK) to a woman in Australia inquiring about life next to a windplant\u2014Editor<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

How far should turbines be from one’s home?<\/em>\u00a0 How far away is a bit like a piece of string, but at least 1.5 miles (2km) , although I do know of some victims in valleys with a windfarm 10 miles away that have problems. As with many things, it’s all down to size and location.<\/p>\n

Our rented house is 5 miles away and we are noise and symptom free at night anyway. For Julian, my husband,\u00a0who still has to farm the arable land on our farm, there is still daily exposure, so some symptoms persist and there does seem to be a dose response mechanism at play, too. So 7 hours downwind is OK, and 10 hours not.<\/p>\n

Is there any medication one can take for Wind Turbine Syndrome?<\/em>\u00a0 No medication available, other than, I suppose, a general anaesthetic for the duration of your stay, which seems a bit drastic.<\/p>\n

The answer is distance. Our home (now completely abandoned ) is 1050m from the nearest turbine<\/p>\n

What exactly causes the low frequency sound?\u00a0 Is it the action of the turning blades?<\/em>\u00a0 Not just the action of the rotation, there is structural resonance as well. But the sound waves given off by the blades have large, complex frequency spectrums, so it’s not just audible noise, but feeling<\/em> noise, like being in the back of a church when the deep organ notes are played. . . . And when you get one turbine running in the wake of another, that\u2019s when the fun really starts!<\/p>\n

We have had full spectral analysis done of the noise from the turbines here at home and there is a huge amount of loud<\/em> that you can’t hear (if you see what I mean) in the frequencies below 20Hz [which by definition is the infrasound range\u2014Editor<\/em>].<\/p>\n

How is this noise\/vibration measured, i.e., with what equipment?<\/em>\u00a0 It’s largely ignored as \u201cit doesn\u2019t exist\u201d (see the work of Geoff Leventhall).<\/p>\n

Do you know how the power that is generated is conveyed to the grid?\u00a0 Viia cables?<\/em>\u00a0 First, by power lines from the turibnes to a substation.\u00a0 These lines may be buried or above ground.\u00a0 The substation then connects to the grid, using larger power lines. The power generated cannot be stored, so if not needed it is \u201cdumped\u201d (I will pass on how that is done).\u00a0 I have no idea how much (or how little) power is generated other than the fact ours run at 25% of their installed capacity.<\/p>\n

Is there any info on how close or far away health effects are experienced?<\/em>\u00a0 See my first answer, above.<\/p>\n

All the best,<\/p>\n

Jane<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following was written by nurse-midwife Jane Davis (Lincolnshire, UK) to a woman in Australia inquiring about life next to a windplant\u2014Editor. How far should turbines be from one’s home?\u00a0 How far away is a bit like a piece of string, but at least 1.5 miles (2km) , although I do know of some victims in valleys with a windfarm 10 miles away that have problems. As with many things, it’s all down to size and location. Our rented house is 5 miles away and we are noise and symptom free at night anyway. For Julian, my husband,\u00a0who still has to farm the arable land on our farm, there is still daily exposure, so some symptoms persist and there does seem to be a dose response mechanism at play, too. So 7 hours downwind is OK, and 10 hours not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}