Vote expected to halt Wiltshire's wind turbines (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

• "Mike Rigby.
  
  There are a number of papers on blade throw, with formulae on likely blade throw distances if you can be bothered reading them. Just google 'wind turbine blade throw'. These can certainly be for hundreds of metres for large turbines. You will find numerous examples in the press, some linked from this site: http://www.windbyte.
  co.uk/safety.html
  
  A Caithness group tracks accident data: http://www.caithness
  windfarms.co.uk/page
  4.htm
  
  The noise issue is definitely key to requiring separation distances, and yes, there IS a wealth of empirical evidence on turbine noise.
  
  This is why more and more countries and/or states are requiring 2km setbacks from large turbines.
  
  For a simple introduction on the issue from a professional industrial acoustician see:
  http://www.youtube.c
  om/watch?feature=pla
  yer_embedded&v=co8y4
  hduXjQ
  
  For info on low frequency noise from large turbines see recent Danish government commissioned, peer-reviewed paper by Professor Møller of Aarhus University:
  http://asadl.org/jas
  a/resource/1/jasman/
  v129/i6/p3727_s1?isA
  uthorized=no:
  
  The medical issues are increasingly well documented, see paper and bibliography in: 'Sleep disturbance and wind turbine noise', June 2009. Dr Christopher Hanning, BSc, MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP, FRCA, MD, Honorary Consultant in Sleep Disorders Medicine to the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust -
  http://www.algonquin
  adventures.com/waywa
  rdwind/docs/Hanning-
  sleep-disturbance-wi
  nd-turbine-noise.pdf
  
  
  There are dozens of peer-reviewed papers on turbine noise, fewer epidemiological and clinical papers. Just take the trouble to look, rather than sticking your head in the sand."
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