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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Wind turbines—low level noise sources interfering with restoration?
Author: Pederson, Eja; and Persson Waye, Kerstin
Abstract. Wind turbines generate a low level noise and would thus not be expected to cause annoyance and disturb rest. In a society where people are being exposed to an increasing noise load, moderate and low level noise sources may also be perceived as annoying and hence inhibit restoration. This article presents an analysis of two socio-acoustic studies of wind turbine noise with the emphasis on perception, annoyance and consequences for restoration. It is hypothesized that low and moderate stressors . . .
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Perception of wind turbine noise: two abstracts
Author: Pederson, Eja; and Persson Waye, Kerstin
Wind turbine noise, annoyance and self-reported health and well-being in different living environments.
Pedersen E, Persson Waye K., Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden. eja.pedersen@set.hh.se
Occup Environ Med. 2007 Jul;64(7):480-6.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the prevalence of perception and annoyance due to wind turbine noise among people living near the turbines, and to study relations between noise and perception/annoyance, with focus on differences between living environments. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out in seven areas in Sweden across dissimilar . . .
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Wind turbine breaks up in storm
Author: teamwrp (You Tube)
Dramatic footage (also available here).
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Government disregard for wind turbine noise and health problems
Author: Davis, Jane and Julian; Arp, Jyette; and Nilsson, Lotta
A Christmas update from the Davises of Deeping St Nicholas about the wind turbine noise that drove them from their home, followed by a 1994 letter from Denmark and a 2001 letter from Sweden (thanks to Angela Kelly of Country Guardian in the U.K.) showing that nothing has changed. Noise, and flicker, remains a serious problem (how could a 90-meter-across propeller with a blade assembly weighing 40 tons be otherwise), and it is still officially ignored.
From Deeping St Nicholas, England, . . .
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Industrial wind: a failure written in the European statistics
Author: Fédération Environnement Durable
[from "Eolien industriel: un échec en filigrane dans les statistiques Européennes"]
Does large-scale development of industrial wind energy actually reduce the consumption of fossil fuels or emission of CO2?
Comparison of per-capita wind and thermal electricity production and CO2 emissions in Germany, Denmark, Spain, and France.
Germany — most industrial wind facilities in the world (18,400 MW in 2005) –
2005: 10.6 tonnes CO2 per capita, 6.4 tonnes from electricity
+190% per capita production from wind from 2000 to 2005
+9% per capita thermal electricity production from . . .
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Analysis of Wind Power in the Danish Electricity Supply in 2005 and 2006
Author: Mason, Vic
Summary:
It is often said that wind power covers c. 20% of Danish electricity consumption. It is more correct to say that the production of power by Danish wind turbines corresponds to about 20% of electricity demand. A considerable part of the wind energy produced is exported to neighboring countries and thus does not cover any part of Danish electricity consumption.
Now, the question is how can one know that it is wind energy and not coal-electricity which is exported? In the . . .
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Analysis of Wind Power in the Danish Electricity Supply 2005-2006
Author: Reel Energi Oplysning
This study is in Danish, but even without Danish the graphs are clear, showing a strong correlation between wind energy production and export of electricity. Thus the evidence shows that wind provides very little of Denmark’s electricity. When the wind blows, the extra power is exported.
Download “Analyse af Vindkraft i Dansk Elforsyning 2005 og 2006″
The English translation is now available: click here.
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Wind power and birds at Smøla [Norway] 2003-2006
Author: Follestad, Arne; et al.
Abstract:
The Smøla Archipelago off the west coast of Norway, at (63°25′ N, 8°00′ E), has a particularly high breeding density of the white-tailed sea eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla. The EIA for the proposed wind farm indicated that it would affect the sea eagle negatively in several ways. Smøla wind farm as built consists of 68 turbines, and the second phase became operational in August 2005. A research program was initiated in 2003 to monitor the territory occupancy and productivity of sea . . .
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Human response to wind turbine noise — perception, annoyance and moderating factors
Author: Pedersen, Eja
(Dissertation, 2007, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Göteborg University Sahlgrenska Institute)
This doctoral thesis is based on four papers:
I. Pedersen, E., and Persson Waye, K. Perception and annoyance due to wind turbine noise—a dose-response relationship. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004, 116, 3460–3470.
II. Pedersen, E., Hallberg, L.R.-M., and Persson Waye K. Living in the vicinity of wind turbines — grounded theory study. Qualitative Research in Psychology. In press.
III. Pedersen, E., and Persson Waye, K. . . .
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KLADEA documents on wind turbine impacts
Author: Schorn, Brigitte
Wind Energy is not free, clean and green energy, as we have been led to believe.
The minimal electricity contribution from wind turbines comes at a huge cost not just in financial terms, but also in terms of the immeasurable irreversible damage this industry does to:
People’s Health and Quality of Life (see all reports)
Wildlife (see Ireland and UK report)
Our environment (see all reports)
Property prices (see all reports)
Tourism (see Germany report)
From our extensive research conducted over the past 14 months, we have . . .
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