Many supporters of environmental wellness have campaigned extensively against wind turbines. Now new evidence has emerged that they could be really damaging for human health and wellbeing.
It has come to light that human health may be potentially damaged by the impulsive infrasound (an inaudible intermittent noise) that is produced by these wind turbines. It is also thought that the industry has known about these potentially hazardous effects for as long as a quarter of a century and yet has done nothing about it, even going so far as to cover it up in some cases.
A research paper has now revealed that the ‘annoyance’ that people feel towards wind turbines is a real thing and not imaginary, as the noise disturbance can result in significant psychological stress. As well as feeling disturbed in their own homes by this intermittent but inaudible noise, people are thought to become more and more sensitive to it over time, meaning that they may feel the presence of the wind turbines more keenly after a period of months or even years than they did at the start rather than getting used to it as you would to any other noise.
The wind industry has frequently claimed that there is no evidence to support the idea that Wind Turbine Syndrome exists, and this report appears to contradict this. Many people have in fact reported Wind Turbine Syndrome, with symptoms ranging from insomnia to anxiety, nausea and palpitations, and now it could be that these are in fact very real rather than imagined symptoms. This flies directly in the face of claims made on the website of one of the biggest wind industry firms that nobody in 68,000 years has ever been harmed by the operation of a normal wind farm.