Living near a wind farm can cause heart disease, panic attacks and migraines

dailymail.co.uk ^ | August 3, 2009 | Daniel Martin

[Free ThinkerNY]

Living close to wind farms can lead to a greater risk of heart disease, panic attacks and migraines, according to a study.

The farms can cause 'wind turbine syndrome', the symptoms of which also include tinnitus, vertigo and sleep deprivation, research to be published later this year claims.

Dr Nina Pierpoint, a leading New York paediatrician, says her five-year study of people living near wind turbines in the U.S., Britain, Italy, Ireland and Canada has led her to believe that they can also trigger nightmares in children and stop their brains developing properly.

There are 219 wind farms in Britain, and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has plans for around 4,000 extra turbines to be installed.

Dr Pierpoint, a fellow of the American Academy of Paediatrics, believes turbines are dangerous because the low frequency sounds they emit interfere with the ear's vestibular system, which controls our sense of balance.

These sounds - which are too low frequency for the human ear to hear - cause a group of symptoms she calls 'visceral vibratory vestibular disturbance', or VVVD.

They cause problems such as quivering, nervousness, fear, a compulsion to flee, chest tightness and tachycardia or increased heart rate.

The noise from turbines can also trigger nightmares and other disorders in children as well as harm cognitive development in the young, she claims.

[steelyourfaith]

Jason Lewis, substitute host for El Rushbo, August 11, 2008 on the E.I.B Network:

"The federal government has to subsidize windmill production through production tax credits of about 1.8¢ per kilowatt. Wind Farms also receive an accelerated depreciation. Wind farms are also land intensive. They produce a fraction of the energy of a traditional power plant but they require 100 times the acreage.

From the National Center for Policy Analysis: to produce a 1000 megawatt power plant a wind farm would require 192,000 acres or 300 square miles. A nuclear plant would need about 1700 acres (or 2.65 mi²), and about 3 mi² for a coal fired power plant. The transmission lines for the wind turbines would be massive, 12,000 miles just for the array."

 

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[al baby]

Bull Pelosi

[pepperdog]

Used to sleep right next to a huge wind generator several times a year. I found it’s whoosh, whoosh, whoosh to be a comforting sound, I liked it.

[livius]

I hate wind farms. They’re ugly and they’ve virtually destroyed parts of Spain, where every mountain ridge has a field of windmills. They’re doing the same in California.

How about drilling for oil and using more efficient petroleum technology or installing - gasp - nuclear power plants?

[Doctor Don]

Baloney! Hogwash!

[max americana]

Also listening to algore causes heart disease, panic attacks and high blood pressures..plus lowering your IQ.

[Nateman]

Amazing how many unseen unverifiable mystical vibrations are out there that can do us harm.Lots of reasons not to waste money on these wind turbines, but this pantload is not one of them.

[Larry Lucido]

The refrigerator and furnace used to scare the hell out of me. Where’s my subsidy?