Just for convenience, here is what i wrote in my last post,...

Just for convenience, here is what i wrote in my last post, which led to this post:

"Cheers Tretchikoff. It's a similar article to a number of recent ones - lots of money to tap into and wind energy will be the first to capitalise on it.

Obviously, wind will be rolled out all over the place but as one of the right wing commentators on the ABC's Insiders tv program said last week (probably Andrew Bolt or Piers Akerman - i cant remember - i listened to a podcast of it), for wind to meet the demands of the 20% RET there will need to be a wind turbine every 300m along the coast from Perth to Sydney!

I'm not sure where that figure was plucked from but wind's overwhelming and uninterrupted dominance could quickly come unstuck if there is any truth to a few recent media reports."


What I was referring to was "Wind Turbine Syndrome". I guess many people saw this article in The Australian last weekend:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25964195-5006785,00.html

The content covered in that article is currently being replicated in other countries as well:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080928/windmill_safety_080928/20081005?hub=Health

http://www.reuters.com/article/earth2Tech/idUS181162838120090803

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/08/03/wind-turbine-noise/

Until the scientific evidence catches up to and validates the anecdotes of "wind turbine syndrome"(as it is now being called), I'll consider it interesting but unproven. I'm more of a sceptic than a scaremonger!

However, if there is substance in it, it wont take decades for it to become recognised like tobacco - it will take just a few years - the internet will ensure that the media and public will begin to aggregate all the disparate local anecdotes and they will be followed by more widespread and detailed scientific studies.

If anything is proven (or if the weight of anecdotes make people openly worried), the local opposition to windfarms will be intense and will affect their economic viability, given the number of properties they'd need to acquire to get a project up.

I'm not hoping for it to be true (my relatively small profit isnt worth the toll on anyone's health or the environment!) But it's worth watching.

Here's a few other links i found interesting (rather than pursuasive) - they are very "local" but if enough such examples spring up, it will get national and international prominabce very quickly, and snowball from there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm0Oe8J6qT8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCbL2uk_kWY&feature=PlayList&p=13CA80F0AF55B1CE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrVQOBD1KQw&feature=PlayList&p=13CA80F0AF55B1CE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyAsHFgPLVY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e71h0ptDBdI&feature=related

http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRCekFYWsPo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbvvQS14GQE


And if you've stuck with this post up to this stage, here's a treat that is off the topic but one that is just plain creepy - this "news" article actually prays for the successful commercialisation of CETO! Not that I'm complaining - each to their own and there should be more of it!

The CETO story is the third one, beginning at about 9mins. But you might want to watch it all to be fully astounded and absorb all the subliminal messages that are no doubt in it as well!!

http://www.guba.com/watch/3000135473