Turbine “torture” for Greek islanders as wind farms proliferate

Re:Turbine “torture” for Greek islanders as wind farms proli... by goodpoint on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:51AM (#30302103)

An infrasound at 1Hz is essentially a puff of air every second. Open and close a door in a small room and you'll get a pretty strong one.

If it was inherently harmful we wouldn't be able to open a window on any windy day.

Or perhaps there's something hypnotic due to the frequency being so constant?

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Re:Turbine “torture” for Greek islanders as wind farms proli... by theshrike79 on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:16AM (#30303158)

Wind doesn't pulse at exactly 1Hz for weeks, it also doesn't carry the same frequency over tens of kilometers. [0]

It's easy to handle anything for a while, like a crying child during a 30 minute bus ride. But when the same noise is extended over a 14 hour flight with no way to escape, you'll start to feel it.

Some people handle auditory interruptions better than others. Infrasound, to my knowledge, hasn't been really studied in a cross-field type of way. It's always just engineers doing measurements with meters and drawing graphs. There are very few studies on the psychological effects of man-made infrasound.

[0] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...

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