14 DAY TRIAL // Scientists in Australia claim that, according to their investigations, wind turbines are by no means as loud as some people say they are. Besides, they do not constitute a threat to public health.
These researchers explain that a run-off-the-mill wind turbine generates less infrasound (i.e. noise below the range of human hearing) than a beating heart does.
Therefore, they cannot cause people to develop the so-called Wind Turbine Syndrome, i.e. a medical condition that is supposedly brought about by the noise produced by wind turbines and whose symptoms are mental health, heart disease and vertigo.
“Our environment has lots of infrasound already in it, the levels generated by wind farms from our point of view are quite low in comparison and they’re no higher than what is already out there in the natural environment,” the researchers write in their paper, as cited by ThinkProgress.
Furthermore, “People themselves generate infrasound through things like their own heartbeat, through breathing and these levels of infrasound can be substantially higher than an external noise source.”