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Falmouth Wind Turbines: News Media's Effort to Hide Truth
The essential act of corruption on the part of the news media is disturbing when journalist have allowed themselves to become part of it.
This essential act of corruption on the part of the news media is all the more disturbing when we begin to see the nature of the system that journalists have allowed themselves to become a part of.
The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States.
July 1, 1979 2MW MOD-1 Turbine installed To trial industrial-level wind energy generation in the US, the 5th operational wind turbine is installed near Boone, North Carolina.
September 1, 1979
First complaints received from a dozen families within a 3km radius of turbine. Much to everyone’s surprise, complaints were made by some residents (see dots on image for location). The annoyance was described as an intermittent “thumping” sound accompanied by vibrations. .. A “feeling” or “presence” was described, felt rather than heard, accompanied by sensations of uneasiness and personal disturbance. .. The “sounds” were louder and more annoying inside the affected homes. .. Some rattling of loose objects occurred. In one or two severe situations, structural vibrations were sufficient to cause loose dust to fall from high ceilings, which created an additional nuisance.
October 1, 1979 — January 1, 1981 Wind turbine operation creates enormous sound pressure waves Many collaborators, including NASA and SERI fully investigated acoustic, seismic and atmospheric aspects using turbine operational information and data recordings in a series of field experiments (the NASA research).
March 1, 1982 Householders are exposed to Low Frequency Noise (LFN) from wind turbines while indoors.
March 2, 1982 Closed windows and doors do not protect occupants from LFN Further NASA research showed that even with windows shut, houses do not stop LFN sound energy. Measured levels inside the home are significantly higher than predicted within the LFN range. The house acts like a drum for LFN.
March 3, 1982 Turbine redesign from downwind to upwind does not fix LFN problem
September 1, 1982 NASA research on human impacts provided to wind industry Wind industry is provided with research through this summary article in the Noise Control Engineering Journal. It describes noise-induced house responses, including frequencies, mode shapes, acceleration levels and outside-to-inside noise reductions.
November 1, 1984 Noise inside homes worse than outside
January 3, 1985 Hypothesis for infrasound-induced motion sickness
February 1, 1985 Major research on community annoyance from wind turbine released
November 1, 1987 Laboratory simulation of wind turbine annoyance conducted
November 2, 1987 Wind turbine annoyance measured
January 1, 1995 Wind developers regroup and respond to NASA research, creating the Noise Working Group
July 28, 2004 Wind industry knows noise models inadequate
July 1, 2009 New version of EPA guidelines - limit up to 40 dB(A)
January 1, 2011 Infrasound also generated by movement of the turbine tower
June 29, 2011 Vestas knew that low frequency noise from larger turbines needed greater setbacks
March 1, 2012 Vestas attempt to avoid LFN measurement
August 1, 2013 Wind developers refuse to cooperate with noise impact studies
September 1, 2014 Cones of wind turbine infrasound hypothesis and motion sickness
October 1, 2014 Ontario Council enacts new by-law including infrasound from wind farms
October 1, 2014 US Wind farm declared ‘Hazard to Human Health’
November 1, 2014 Infrasonic wind turbine signature in homes
November 14, 2014 Cause and effect relationship established - Turbine LFN and human sensation of annoyance in homes
December 1, 2014 Evidence mounts that wind turbines impact on health 21 peer reviewed papers on the adverse health effects of wind turbines
December 1, 2014 Sleep deprivation by wind turbine noise: a dose-response relationship identified.
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The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States.
The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts has been aware their wind turbines generate 110 decibels of noise since 2010. The town never had a wind study or engineering plans to install turbines with a decibel level this high. The turbines are Vestas V 82 commercial wind turbines 1.65 megawatts each. Vestas wind company warned the town the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise
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