Is there credible evidence that wind turbines cause ill-health?

no. more often than not it's anecdotal claims or trumped up accusations by people or organizations who resist wind power for other reasons.

there is the potential for an low sound frequency, as can be produced by the spinning blades in certain conditions, to affect people who are unusually sensitive to ultra low frequencies. However, this is not a matter of ill health.

to cause ill health there needs to be a vector. They can't harm you just by being there, they need to act on you. The only potential impact are the noise/vibration created by their movement. You won't find any credible source that draws a causation relationship there.

Hey Bush, good to see you're still at it. In a nutshell, there isn't any evidence that most of us will consider credible. The best evidence out there was done by a Pediatrician back in 2002 I believe, a lady with the last name of Peirport. She claims to have studied people living near turbines who complained of headaches, nausea, dizziness and similar symptoms due to the turbines. There was a lot of mud slung over this work. She has a website and has coined the name, "Wind Turbine Syndrome," for the people affected. Well it was later learned that only 10 families were in he original study, and there was no control group to work against the results. You can look into it by googling Wind Turbine Syndrome and check it out yourself. The medical people they took this study too found that the symptoms were the same as people who are suffering from increased day to day stress, such as job loss, financial problems and marital difficulties, some of them just happen to live near a wind turbine.

One item she did cite was, "Shadow Flicker," which is the effect of being in your home on a sunny day in the shadow of the blades rotation, so you get this low frequency flash all afternoon in your entire home. This is actually a concern that many government agencies are considering when permitting new wind turbine installations. I actually sat in on one of those meetings last year when it was being discussed. In most cases, the controlling agencies are looking at a large swath of land that will sit in the shadow of the turbine for more than say 30 minutes, and deciding if the proposed turbine location makes sense. But the entire discussion of low frequency sensativity is absurd when you consider the din of every day life with lawnmowers, semi trucks and construction zones all over creation. The sound of the whish whish of the turbine blades does not hold a candle to all the junk we put up with 24/7 already.

We live in the shadow of a wind turbine today, the one we installed in our own back yard over 10 years ago. So far my children haven't grown any extra ears or eyes, and they are both straight A students, not the kind of people the Syndrome study would exemplify in its research.

I like your website by the way, you've been busy researching all this stuff out in the bush. Take care, Rudydoo

There aren't any studies on hum,ans I do not believe. However there are studies done on bats that die as a result of being near wind turbines. Out of all the bats they studied half of them died from something known as pulmonary barotrauma. The peer reviewed study was released in 2008 in the science journal 'Current Biology' (See link 1). Basically it states that many bats are killed by air pressure changes near wind turbines as the result of lung damage. Pulmonary barotrauma death is associates with diving as well. (See link 2) I don't know if any types of studies have been done on humans living close to wind turbines though or the lungs of people living near wind turbines and I don't believe there is any conclusive proof as to if it is real or not. It may be true for people with weak lungs but I suppose we'll just have to wait and see when more studies are done. As of right now, I'd say it is false. However I do fully support building offshore wind farms.

In a word: NO. Most of the claims against a given form of energy production are from groups that are opposed to electricity and would like to see us return to the farming existence that we had in the early 1800s. Coal produced most of our energy so the FUTURE prospects of nuclear were touted until nuclear power matured. That could not be allowed so solar, wind, and hydro were pushed. This was not because they could replace coal and nuclear but because their capabilities were limited. A number of dams were destroyed to reduce hydroelectric production. Solar is still very limited so it was left alone. Wind turbines showed a promise so it was important to discredit it with studies which had scientific backing of anecdotal backing (stories that your grandmother remembered from her elders).

The only credible evidence is that if you walk up to a spinning turbine, you are very likely to be hurt by the blades. In California, wind turbines are frequently called "Condor Cuisinarts"

there grew to become right into a learn via Australia’s nationwide well-being & medical analyze Council which reported there grew to become into no credible hyperlink, I comprehend the perception this is because of low frequency noise emitted via the generators yet there is not any longer something in any journals Im conscious of.

there is no way they can make you sick.. all they do is create electricity from the wind... how can that make anyone sick? whoever makes these stories up could just be old fashioned wackos