​Jamestown Rhode Island Whale Death Infra-Sound Questions

Several days ago a Humpback whale washed up on the rocks in Jamestown, RI. where not too far off in the distance on a clear day you can see the first wind farm in the USA near Block Island.

Block Island aka New Shoreham, Rhode Island, and Boone, North Carolina in the 1970s both part of wind turbine experiments done by the U.S.Department of Energy and NASA. Studies done at that time by scientist Neil Kelly concluded in 1987 that wind turbine infrasound, low-frequency noise, interfered with line of sight television communication and caused sleep problems with neighbors in North Carolina.

In Massachusetts, the land-based wind turbine projects have ground to a halt near residential homes as sleep and health problems being blamed on noise from the turbines.

Several weeks ago marine environmental experts in the United Kingdom blamed offshore wind turbines for the death of three Minke whales. Experts claim noise generated by turbines affected the sonar the whales use to navigate along with large amounts of sand in the water.

Humpback whales generate a noise between 80 and 4,000 hertz which can be heard for twenty miles about the same distance from Jamestown to Block Island.

The question today are the wind turbines infrasound causing problems with whales health as they have done to humans living near the turbines.

In the past two years, the number of unexplained whale deaths has increased in the North Atlantic.One coincidence is the increase in numbers of ocean wind turbines.

The health risk of infrasound from wind turbines has been dismissed by the wind industry as insignificant and allege land-based and offshore wind farms are good for the environment.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is going to determine what to do with the carcass.

The US Department of Energy and NASA knew about the effects of wind turbine infrasound 40 years ago.

The results are here today