• Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    The same argument is used by opponents of wind energy - Infrasound is having bad effects on their health. People do say that while living next to roads that are producing infrasound multiple times louder than wind turbines ever could.

    It’s a nice argument if you need it.

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      17 hours ago

      How on earth do wind turbines produce infrared sound? The huge things there’s no way they can achieve the necessary vibrations to produce audio let alone in for sound it’s just stupid.

      The infra sound has been produced from the high pressure wakes generated in the heat exhaust

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        12 hours ago

        I am not sure if I get your point. Sound so deep, that humans can’t here it, is below 20 Hz. So beeing huge helps to produce such low frequencies - bigger wind turbines produce more intense infrasound than smaller ones. Infrasound is also produced by wind blowing over the landscape and by waves on the beach.

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      1 day ago

      There’s documented proof of this being measured by multiple people.

      A windmill is literally only a visual blight.