By Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards for The Highwire
Even though we can’t visibly see the toxins that currently contaminate much of our food and water supply, we know they’re there because they are destroying human health. The same is true for other destructive creations promoted as safe—and necessary for human survival due to climate change—but instead contain extremely disruptive unseen risks. We understand wind turbines are enormous and take up massive stretches of natural land and water space. But that’s not all. While positive sound is incredibly healing, wind turbines release an inaudible, low-frequency vibration that is harmful to human health, with chronic exposure leading to severe disturbance of vascular regulation in all living organisms.
Of course, climate change fanatics pushing wind power glorify it as safe. But not so fast. A hard pause is in order because wind power is indeed a silent hazard to the human body. A June 2024 analysis by Dr. Bellut-Staeck underscores earlier research confirming that these gigantic wind turbines—with blades up to 300 feet long—produce increasingly intense infrasound pressure. To explain further, humans can only sense sound waves over an approximate range of between 20 and 20,000 Hertz. The human ear cannot hear any sound waves below 20 Hz. These silent but lethal sound waves are called infrasound. Infrasound emitted naturally, meaning by nature, is of no concern because it is harmless. However—in addition to disrupting wildlife, shredding countless essential insects and birds, and severely hurting the biotope—infrasound from man-made wind turbines is a major cause for concern.
These colossal wind turbines blanket the landscape with a strong layer of sound that falls below the limits of hearing. Again, the frequencies they emit are inaudible to humans, but the body feels them. A 2021 article in the German publication Tichy’s Einblick explained that there are molecular mechanisms by which our body’s cells detect mechanical forces and trigger biochemical processes. Importantly, biochemical processes are chemical reactions that occur within our body to sustain life, including the breakdown and synthesis of biomolecules like proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids —all essential for the body to function and survive. In other words, it’s the “chemistry of life” happening within a living being.
Well, guess what? Infrasound from wind turbines is one of the mechanical forces detected by the body’s cells, triggering biochemical processes because the body is highly sensitive to pressure changes, even if they go unnoticed. These effects become more evident over time. Specifically, fluctuations in air pressure, as a rule, create a disrupting effect. Einblick’s article explained that in higher frequencies (above 20 Hz), humans perceive these fluctuations as sound events like speech, music, and noises.
However, these sound fluctuations possess exceptionally alarming qualities in the low frequency ranges below 20 Hz, which, as previously stated, are inaudible to humans. These invisible waves propagate over long distances—astoundingly, up to over 12 miles—and pass through walls unimpeded! Humans cannot escape these waves by going inside or moving to lower rooms because infrasound penetrates. In his 2019 book How Wind Turbines Make Us Sick, Biologist Wolfgang Müller noted that the extremely sensitive eardrum and middle ear are constantly affected by low-frequency infrasound, sharing:
“These pressure fluctuations propagate into the body cavities because they connect with the outside world. These low-frequency pressure fluctuations impact solid structures and tissues, which contain numerous receptors sensitive to even the smallest air pressure changes.
In the middle ear, receptors constantly measure the prevailing air pressure to allow the brain to account for pressure fluctuations in sound waves. This processing is essential for estimating and comparing different loudness perceptions.”
Likewise, the study by Dr. Bellut-Staeck reiterates what has been known but not publicized for a long time—that chronic infrasound exposure from wind turbines devastates human health and can lead to serious consequences, including vascular disorders. How exactly do wind turbines create infrasound? [Answer: when the blade of the turbine passes by the base, it generates a pressure change and audible and ILFN [infrasonic low frequency noise] acoustic energy.]
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Wind Concerns is a collaboration of citizens of the Lakeland Alberta region against proposed wind turbine projects.
I love the reading of this article as we in NL will be flooded with them. The farm on the Burin peninsula will have 1550 turbines. Almost all of out land for hunting and fishing and berry picking gone. Are you allowed to cross these farms?
” ….the study by Dr. Bellut-Staeck reiterates what has been known but not publicized for a long time—that chronic infrasound exposure from wind turbines devastates human health and can lead to serious consequences, including vascular disorders.”
Why is this not a human rights violation?
I fully agree.
“At the bottom, the article says: “How exactly do wind turbines create infrasound? Read the full article here. ” But that article SAYS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT HOW THOSE BLADES GENERATE INFRASOUND. I HATE dumb false dead ends like this in articles.
I have added more information that the authors didn’t put in the article. Thanks!
Infrasound from wind turbines is caused when the blades pass the tower, 3 passes per revolution (ie 3 blades)which creates a pressure shock wave (air is compressed between the blade and tower) due to the enormous size of these mechanical monsters… this sends the shock wave out 360 degrees in all directions… these shock waves measure under 20 Hz usually around 1-5 hertz …. These shock waves pass through all objects including concrete houses …. a 20 Hz infrasound wave requires a 17 meter Barrier to stop it … a 1 Hz wave requires a 343 meter barrier … so you see it can penetrate all objects including concrete!!! It also has no problem effecting your middle ear which creates a conflict when you are lying down or sleeping … hence the travel sickness feeling all the time and other symptoms!!!
How much scientific evidence is necessary for the federal government to acknowledge that wind turbines, as an energy source, has low efficiency, is hazardous to the environment that sustains humans, animals, birds, fish and causes health complications for the people subjected to close proximity of their placement. In the end, who gains?
It is up to us to put this information continually in front of our politician’s faces so that they act. They are under immense pressure (ie. political correctness) to pretend that “green” energy is clean, safe, and renewable. The truth is that solar panels and wind energy use up immense amounts of crude oil, precious minerals, have a short life span, and terrible recycling potentiality. They are not “green.”