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Untersuchung zu gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigungen von Anwohnern durch den Betrieb von Windenergieanlagen in Deutschland
Author: Kaula, Stephan
Anhand einer Fallstudie wurde der Frage nachgegangen, ob gesundheitliche Schädigungen von Anwohnern durch den Betrieb von Windenergieanlagen vorliegen. Dies wird von ausländischen Studien zwar nahegelegt, die Kausalität und das Ausmaß der Belastung, die über eine Störwirkung hinausgehen, wird aber in Deutschland generell bestritten. An dokumentierten Einzelfällen von Anwohnern, konnte mit dieser Untersuchung nachgewiesen werden: In kausalem Zusammenhang mit dem Betrieb von Windenergieanlagen in behördlich erlaubten Entfernungen zur Wohnbebauung treten mit hoher Signifikanz reproduzierbare schwere Schlafstörungen mit ernsten Folgeerkrankungen auf, die . . .
More »Wind turbine operation at officially permitted distances to residential areas is causal to severe sleep disorders in Germany
Author: Kaula, Stephan; et al.
Abstract Background: Increasing numbers of serious adverse health effects reported by residents living near wind turbines served to initiate this descriptive cohort study. Methods: Two physicians interviewed 131 persons across Germany who suspected that their health impairments were due to nearby wind turbine operation. A questionnaire completed by each interviewee provided the data for this report. Results: Chronic sleep disorders connected to wind turbine operation were reported by 128 persons. A reproducible chronic sleep disorder (repeated temporal relationship between wind . . .
More »Health Relevance of Aerodynamic Emissions from Wind Turbines
Author: Kaula, Stephan
The aerodynamic emissions of wind turbines – particularly wind pressure pulses, periodic pressure waves from energy-laden air displacement, vortex formation, and tower oscillations – involve significant energetic content and, according to current interdisciplinary evidence, can impair the health of sensitive organisms, particularly humans. Current regulations, which are focused almost exclusively on acoustic metrics, fail to capture these non-acoustic but highly impactful emission types. This represents a serious and now untenable gap in environmental and public health protection, likely responsible for . . .
More »Wind turbine infrasound propagation over long distance
Author: Crozier, Steven
Infrasound with large peak to trough blade pass harmonics in two houses between three large wind turbine farms (WTFs) on the northwest coast of Norway, two single health cases, and a health survey near the WTF in Tysvær, Norway. In late 2019 I was contacted by concerned citizens on the neighbouring island of Hitra, where Norway’s first full scale WTF Hitra 1 with 24 Siemens SWT 2.3 CS turbines with 5.800m² sweep areas had been in commission since 2004. It . . .
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