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Industrial Wind vs. the Environment (ILFN issues in debate)
« on: April 10, 2024, 05:55:30 am »
Industrial Wind vs. the Environment (ILFN issues in debate)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 9, 2024

“Inner organs are sensitive for sound and vibration. The current state of knowledge on mechano-transduction together with known oscillatory and oxidative stress effects, point in the direction of our hypothesis and should be reason for urgent precautionary actions and further research.”

It is a very technical subject–but certainly one for deep ecologists that see humankind being a cancer to optimal, fragile Nature. Industrial wind turbines, huge and disruptive in the open space, are certainly man-made and subject to the guilty-until-proven-innocent doctrine of the “precautionary principle.”

Infrasound and low-frequency noise (ILFN) is an important issue that wind apologists do not want to discuss or debate. MasterResource posts by Stephen Cooper and others over many years have made a case that “what you cannot hear can hurt you.” As one critic put it:

More than just audible sound, grinding, whomping, blade pass whooshes, an ever-present hum, industrial wind turbines have a silent, below audible impact. It is not like a day contamination/harm at work where people can go home at night for relief. With industrial wind projects literally engulfing homes and rural areas, there is little or no escape.

https://www.masterresource.org/wind-power-vs-environment/industrial-wind-turbines-vs-the-environment/
abolitionist Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.”