Wind Turbine Infra Sound A Modern Day Scandal

The NASA Research 1980s Boone, North Carolina

Starting in the early 1980s, a decade’s worth of research was undertaken by NASA into a series of large wind turbines which also included work carried out by Scientist Neil Kelley

As it turns out all the modern day research being done about the noise complaints by residents world wide from the wind turbines was discovered years ago.

The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) commissioned Dr. Neil Kelley and his colleagues at the Solar Research Institute (which later became the National Renewable Energy Laboratories of the US Department of Energy) to investigate possible causes.

Over the next ten years, Kelley was able to take advantage of government and NASA facilities and funding to carry out extensive field investigations and laboratory research of a scope and thoroughness that has not been matched since. He also had access to experts at six leading American Universities as well as the co-operation and input of the wind turbine industry.

Key findings of the NASA research into the residential complaints were that:

Very low frequency noise generated by NASA’s turbines was defined as “infrasound” was the cause of the nuisance and human annoyance”reported .

The homes where people were adversely affected were situated miles from a single turbine.

It has also been shown to cause “annoyance/displeasure” as a “presence” which residents could “feel” to varying degrees, up to “extremely annoying and uncomfortable”; sensations of “vibration/pressure” and “pulsations”, which participants could also “feel” to varying degrees, up to and including “severe vibration” and “very heavy pulses, booms and thumps”;

A review of recent research into wind turbine infra sound shows much of the discovery was already found in the 1980s.

The first wind turbine noise complaints in North America, reported over 35 years ago.

In 1985, a study was published (Nussbaum) that established infra sound as the cause of symptoms including: accelerated heart rate; increased respiration; fatigue; dizziness (vertigo); nausea (motion sickness); and headaches, among other things.

In 2005 long before the installation of Falmouth Wind I the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center warned residential home owners that the turbines give off two distinct types of noise.

On page 14 of the Marion ,Mattapoisett and Rochester 2005 wind test study-The MassCEC warned : Noise considerations generally take two forms, state regulatory compliance and "nuisance levels" at nearby residences.

In 2011 the Chief Executive Officer of Vestas wind company CEO Engel Ditlev wrote a letter to Karen Ellemann about low frequency noise. The CEO responded that Vestas does not have the technology to stop the noise.

Falmouth, Massachusetts has two town owned Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt turbines built on an older model of the Neg Micon NM-82 type 1.65 megawatt turbine that generates up to 110 decibels of regulatory noise

For 30 years Kelley’s work has been overlooked or intentionally side stepped. The industry has continued to deny that wind turbines emit infrasound or that it affects nearby residents.

Three preliminary studies replicating Kelley’s findings:

The Falmouth Study, December 2011 This investigation is also known as the “Bruce McPherson Infrasound & Low Frequency Noise Study”

Stephen Ambrose and Robert Rand, set out to confirm or deny the presence of infrasonic and low frequency noise emissions (ILFN) from the “WIND 1”, a municipally-owned Vestas V82 industrial wind turbine.

Shirley, Brown County, Wisconsin, 2012 The investigation of the Shirley wind project was carried out co-operatively by four different acoustic firms.

Cooper: Cape Bridgewater 2014 Acoustician Steve Cooper’s study “The Results of an Acoustic Testing Program, Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm” (26 November 2014)48 was similar to Kelley’s project

Massachusetts state and local officials for years have ignored thousands of written certified noise complaints from twenty one communities.

The state of Massachusetts needs to implement protective public health measures based on the precautionary principles.

The Massachusetts Court System needs to take action

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