{"id":5423,"date":"2009-12-21T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2012-01-25T07:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T12:36:37","slug":"low-frequency-noise-and-infrasound-bombard-vinalhaven-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/low-frequency-noise-and-infrasound-bombard-vinalhaven-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Turbine Syndrome visits Vinalhaven (Maine)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/span>The bottom 2 videos were made by Industrial Wind Action<\/a>, drawing from a radio interview 12\/19\/09 by WERU 89.9 FM<\/a> (Bangor).\u00a0 Our thanks to Lisa Linowes of Industrial Wind Action for making these available.<\/p>\n

A little background.\u00a0 November 17, 2009, the Fox Islands Wind Project<\/a>\u00a0of 3 GE 1.5 MW turbines began generating power on Vinalhaven.\u00a0 Islanders were thrilled.\u00a0 There was a big celebration.\u00a0 Balloons, hot dogs, speeches, ribbon cutting, Washington dignitaries—the works.<\/p>\n

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Twelve miles out at sea, Vinalhaven has long been hostage to high electricity rates.\u00a0 This project, owned by an island\u00a0power\u00a0consortium, was the perfect answer, so they were told.\u00a0 The few people who did their homework and raised\u00a0objections were considered cranks and righteously dismissed.\u00a0 Enemies of the people.\u00a0 The millennium of “clean, green, renewable” had arrived on Vinalhaven and was greeted on opening day with loud hosannas and wide-eyed schoolchildren (witness the above video).<\/p>\n

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Four weeks\u00a0later, station WERU 89.9 FM interviewed the neighbors<\/a>.\u00a0 Euphoria has turned to anguish and self-reproach.\u00a0 “We were misled,” seems to be the common lament.\u00a0 Eurphoria has turned to hope that the wind developer, working with GE (the turbine manufacturer), will figure out a technological fix.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What these worthy people fail to understand is that the noise\/vibration\u00a0is not amenable to a technological fix.\u00a0 New research by noise engineers working in tandem with Dr. Pierpont shows that much of the problem is infrasound (single digit Hertz)—literally, powerful pressure waves<\/em>—generated by those colossal, pressure-generating rotors as they churn an area the size of a football field.\u00a0 (Click here<\/a>.)\u00a0 The only technological “tweak” for this, folks,\u00a0is to turn them off.\u00a0 Added to this, the passing of the blades by the tower appears to produce a powerful low frequency noise\/vibration which, likewise, will cease and desist only when the turbines—you guessed it—are turned off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite this, hope\u00a0springs eternal even\u00a0as it is rendered vain by noise engineers and the inconvenient realities of Physics 101 and pathophysiology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least one home has been abandoned—and these people are only a month into their Wind Turbine Syndrome.\u00a0 WTS.com urges them to get hold of Pierpont’s “Wind Turbine Syndrome<\/a>” (2009) to see what’s in store as they resolutely\u00a0cling to their homes.\u00a0 At what cost?\u00a0 We mean, what health cost?<\/p>\n

This is a tragedy and unnecessary.\u00a0 The wind developer and GE both knew of Pierpont’s research, as well as that of numerous other clinicians, and they knew the work of independent noise engineers.\u00a0 They covered it up.\u00a0 Where is the Congressional investigation?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wind turbines owned by a consortium\u00a0of islanders might be a dandy idea—as long as they’re a minimum of 2 km from people’s homes.\u00a0 That’s where they blew it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Be sure your speakers are turned up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These videos were compiled using excerpts from the radio interview.\u00a0 The images in the videos are not from Vinalhaven; they are photos from other locations in North America where towers were sited very close to homes—Industrial Wind Action<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Are stupendously bad setbacks essential to achieving\u00a0\u201cclean, green, renewable” energy, or are they more accurately the stealth bombers of sleazy wind developers and turbine manufacturers and lazy, juiced-up governments?
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\u00b7 The bottom 2 videos were made by Industrial Wind Action, drawing from a radio interview 12\/19\/09 by WERU 89.9 FM (Bangor).\u00a0 Our thanks to Lisa Linowes of Industrial Wind Action for making these available. A little background.\u00a0 November 17, 2009, the Fox Islands Wind Project\u00a0of 3 GE 1.5 MW turbines began generating power on Vinalhaven.\u00a0 Islanders were thrilled.\u00a0 There was a big celebration.\u00a0 Balloons, hot dogs, speeches, ribbon cutting, Washington dignitaries—the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423"}],"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=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}