Wind power may have its own environmental problems

Wow!!! These windmills ahould be in the middle of nowhere but I bet that's impossible in Japan

Hi there, I removed the "tech" tag from this story but the "green" tag is perfect, thanks!

I've never heard of wind power-related disorders before. How weird, and awful if that's indeed what's making these people sick.

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I call bullshit... if we can string 70,000 volt AC lines across the country without serious effects, I really fail to see how simple magnetic power generation could do anything significant.

Most likely these people are suffering from other environmental factors, perhaps water quality.

As it clearly states, there is no apparent explanation... thus they have no evidence only coincidental factors that are being linked with no support.

I must add that anyone who knows anything about magnetic fields and the strength of said fields should know that 350m is far beyond the effective range. Magnetic fields while still somewhat mysterious, have an exponential degradation of intensity similar to light which follows the radius squared rule. For every unit of distance away from the source, the intensity is reduced by the second root of the original intensity. You would need a terribly large and powerful field to have any effect at 350m.

PS - I am a recent engineering grad and am pretty familiar with physics, including magnetic fields.

Next they'll be telling us that our alternators in our cars are making us sick... LOL...

Seriously, you ride in your car only a few feet from pretty much the same mechanism that's in those turbines, only smaller.

i hope they figure out the real cause behind these symptoms soon. I believe that wind power could help the earth out alot in terms of what people have done to it, and i would hate to see this technology ruled out because of health factors found in people without solid, concrete evidence that it is the culprit.

compare it to coals "enviromental problems" ....................

BS!

Oh shit, I almost forgot!! The same technology is used in almost EVERY form of power generation.

In a coal plant, coal heats water and turns it to a super heated vapor that is used to turn a turbine which in turn rotates huge magnetic devices that give us the power that we use every day.... geothermal, natural gas, even solar thermal power generation; ALL of it uses magnetic fields to push and pull electrons through the electric grid, only difference is what is providing the rotational power and how big of a generator you are turning.

Reminds m of the "brown note" thing on mythbusters. Personally I'd be more likely to suspect air pressure changes messing with people's inner ears. We already know they can explode the lungs of bats.

infrasonic means (sound waves)

I guess the moral of the story is that there are too many of us and that anything we do to continue to maintain the current energy usage is going to be out of balance? Blasted! That's always a tough pill to swallow.

The scientists and consultants dressed up in lab coats are now telling us that the wind turbines may now be changing the natural and fragile wind cycles that life forms of all kind depend on to live. We should prepare for what may or could or possibly could happen and put ourselves in drip fed comas to lessen our impact on our poor helpless 5 billion year old planet earth that humans are in charge of. Move over God. Move over Mother Nature. We human monkeys are in charge.

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