Cardiologist’s Investigation and Response to Industrial Wind Turbines in the Rural Residential Countryside PDF

12/7/2020 – Dr. W. Ben Johnson, M.D, a Madison County, Iowa, Cardiologist, has published his Investigation and Response to Industrial Wind Turbines in the Rural Residential Countryside Regarding Concerns of Adverse Health Effects. The Executive Summary is several pages long and the report is very long. But it has to be to cover the details and complexities of the subject.

Health Effects of Wind Turbines: Testimony of Ben Johnson versus MidAmerican Energy (Madison County, Iowa)

8/23/2019 This is an excellent summary of Dr. W. Ben Johnson’s published investigation. It quickly highlights the main points that are backed up in detail in the above linked to book.

Wind turbines and adverse health effects: Applying Bradford Hill’s criteria for causation
Oct-Dec 2021 Environment Diease

The weight of evidence indicates occurrences of adverse health effects (AHEs) from living and working near industrial wind turbines (IWTs). Descriptions of the AHEs being reported by those living or working near the turbines are similar. While these occurrences have been associated with exposure to audible and inaudible noise annoyance, the causation of reported wind turbine-associated health effects remains controversial.

Wind turbines and adverse health effects: Applying Bradford Hill’s criteria for causation – Big noises.
July-Sept 2021 Environment Disease

Oct-Dec 2021 A peer-reviewed article concluding that industrial wind turbines generate negative health effects for nearby residents: “Wind turbines and adverse health effects: Applying Bradford Hill’s criteria for causation (by Anne Dumbrille, Robert McMurtry, and Carmen Krogh)

Renewable Rejection Database

Robert Bryce has maintained a database of US Government Entities That Moved to Reject or Restrict Wind Projects since 2015.

Find Your Iowa Legislator

Find the contact information for your Senator and Representative.
Hint: Don’t use the Interactive Map tab. Use one of the others. Be aware that some cities are split across multiple districts so try the Address tab for the best results.

Iowa Land Records

Requires you to be a registered user, which is free.
You can search for leases the utility has filed.
1) Select counties and Continue
2) Use date pickers for dates. Remember they have been quietly signing leases for a long time.
3) Use MidAmerican for company name
4) Neighbor agreements are Other document types.
5) In the list of filings click on the Image button to see a PDF of the filing.

Lots of great documents and research papers.

Wind turbines on sacred Osage land must be removed, according to court ruling 1/18/2024 NPR

A federal judge is ordering three companies to remove more than 80 wind turbines from an Oklahoma prairie. The companies say removing the turbines could cost them around $300 million.

That is almost $3.5 million per turbine.

Not So “Green” Technology: The Complicated Legacy of Rare Earth Mining – 8/12/2021 Harvard International Review

For every ton of rare earth produced, the mining process yields 13kg of dust, 9,600-12,000 cubic meters of waste gas, 75 cubic meters of wastewater, and one ton of radioactive residue. Most worrying is that rare earth ores are often laced with radioactive thorium and uranium, which result in especially detrimental health effects. Overall, for every ton of rare earth, 2,000 tons of toxic waste are produced. An electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and a wind plant requires nine times more minerals than a gas-fired plant.

How HR Cheats Employees -Branigan Robertson
Youtube

This Lawyer talks about Arbitration clauses in Employment agreements during parts 10-14.
IT APPLIES TO WIND AND SOLAR LEASES!
Everyone needs to understand this before signing anything that has an arbitration clause!

Analyzing a Decade of Wind Turbine Accident News 11/18/2021 MDPI Journals

Despite the significance and growth of wind energy as a major source of renewable energy, research on the risks of wind turbines in the form of accidents and failures has attracted limited attention. Research that applies data analytics methodologically in this context is scarce.

A Review on Failure Modes of Wind Turbine Components 8/24/2021 MDPI Journals

5. Failure Modes of Wind Turbine — Depending on the rotor size and rpm, a piece of blade will fly up to 1.6 km (1 mile) due to centrifugal and Coriolis forces. In a recent incident in Germany, several blade scraps pierced the roofs and walls of surrounding homes, indicating that wind turbines must be built 2 km away from domestic buildings.

A List of Many Setbacks > 1500 Feet.

The “industry” claims that 1500 feet is an industry standard and has been for decades. This has a list of dozens of districts that have greater setbacks and for as long as since 2007!

Leading Edge erosion and pollution from wind turbine blades
PDF

PDF download from Wind-Watch.org
8/7/2021
Each wind turbine can lose at least136 pounds each year from the fiberglass blades. Releasing microplastics containing BPAs. The bigger the blades the more that is released.

Analysis of Throw Distance
PDF

PDF download from Wind-Watch.org
Published online 19 February 2015 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/we 1828

Take note of page 7 figure 5 and page 8 figure 6.
Translated metric.
100m/s = 223MPH – many blade tips normally travel 180-210mph
150m/s = 336MPH – a runaway system failure speed.
850m = 2788 feet – throw distance for 5MW turbine blade tip
1400m = 4593 feet – throw distance for 5MW turbine in runaway condition.

Take note of page 10 figure 11 and page 11 figure 12.
Translated metric.
100m/s = 223MPH – many blade tips normally travel 180-210mph
150m/s = 336MPH – a runaway system failure speed.
1000m = 3281 feet – throw distance for 5MW turbine blade tip
1700m = 5570 feet – throw distance for 5MW turbine in runaway condition.

Iowa State study quantifies how much ice buildup affects wind turbines 3/7/2021 Ames Tribune.

Iowa State’s professor Hui Hu …was that ice almost a foot thick built up near the tips of blades… because ice does not develop evenly across the blades — the turbine can become off-balanced, generating forces that damage internal workings and require a shut down if those forces exceed certain limits.

Caithness Windfarm Information Forum 2020

This site has since been taken down and is no longer available. http://www.caithness.org/windfarms/

This site collects the world wide documentation of accidents, fires and blade failures of wind turbines. In 2019 they found 24 blade failures and 23 turbine fires. Check our NEWS page for an article on how wind turbine failures may be under reported due to public relation issues.

The truth about wind turbines – how bad are they? 8/18/2020 Youtube

Wind power needs 400 times more land than nuclear for example. Wind power also needs more than 10 times as much materials such as concrete and steel as nuclear per TWh.

Safety of Wind Systems 8/27/2019 PDF

By Magdi Ragheb a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Wind Turbines Can Act Like Big Magnets for Lightning 2/24/2014 Bloomberg

They can be hit by bolts every three seconds for hours-long periods, even if thunderstorms are not nearby. They were sometimes hit by lightning even when the thunderstorms were “tens of kilometers away,”

The frequent lightning bolts could be damaging turbine blades, which are made of carbon-reinforced plastic.

Nordex turbine manual says “A WT is at high risk from lightning strikes. … Wait in a vehicle at a safe distance from the WT – approx. 1km” 1km = 3281feet.

Used to link to a PDF from the Ohio Public Utilities Commission (http://dis.puc.state.oh.us/TiffToPDf/A1001001A19L04B45214J00458.pdf). Now is a PDF hosted here. Check pages 160 and 161.

Database of World Wide Wind Turbine Accidents through 2014 PDF Wind Watch

Wind farm turbulence impacts on general aviation airports in Kansas. 1/1/2014 PDF – University of Kansas

A study from the University of Kansas School of Engineering sheds light on a potential safety hazard that could affect hundreds of airports across the country and calls for updated guidelines to improve aviation safety. At issue is the proximity of wind farms to general aviation airports, and how the small aircraft that use them could be affected by the turbulence generated by wind turbines.

Do Wind Turbines Pose Roll Hazards to Light Aircraft? – PDF from National Renewable Energy Laboratory(GOV)

Clean Energy or Dangerous Skies? Interactions Between the Wind Energy and Aerial Application Industries – PDF

Priyanth Manjooran J.D., Drake University Law School, 2013; B.A., Cornell College, 2010.

Some aerial applicators may impose a surcharge of over fifty percent if engaged to spray a field in the vicinity of a wind turbine. Many aerial applicators, however, completely refuse to treat land occupied by wind turbines.

GOP lawmakers look to block eminent domain for wind farm projects.

Links to the Iowa Capital Dispatch

PDF document on land values with links to many other documents.

Links to the Lake Ontario Tribune site.

Values in the Wind: A Hedonic Analysis of Wind Power Faciliti es 8/2012 University of Wisconsin Press

This link is to an article that requires a subscription in order to read the entire article.

Abstract

The siting of wind facilities is extremely controversial. This paper uses data on 11,331 property transactions over nine years in northern New York State to explore the effects of new wind facilities on property values. We use a fixed-effects framework to control for omitted variables and endogeneity biases. We find that nearby wind facilities significantly reduce property values in two of the three counties studied. These results indicate that existing compensation to local homeowners/communities may not be sufficient to prevent a loss of property values. (JEL Q51, Q53)

The down side to wind power

Harvard reports Wind farms will cause more environmental impact than previously thought. 10/4/2018

Wind Turbines Are Generating Mountains Of Waste, Not Energy 9/28/2020 Climate Change Dispatch

They never tell you about the costs – or the environmental destruction – that they have hidden from you for decades. But neither do most governments, news media, or social media.

Timmer did admit that “wind is even cheaper at the moment because of a tax credit given to renewable energy generation”

It is estimated there will be 43 million metric tons just of blade waste worldwide by 2050. China is projected to be responsible for generating 40% of the waste, followed by Europe (25%) and the USA (19%).

With some 8,000 blades a year already being removed from service just in the United States, that’s 32,000 truckloads over the next four years; in a few years, the numbers will be five times higher.

Land Needs for Wind, Solar Dwarf Nuclear Plant’s Footprint.

Links to the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Electrical Energy: Sound Scientific Solutions

An online slideshow. Don’t click on anything, just scroll through the slides

ARKWRIGHT MONITORS WIND TURBINE NOISE

A YouTube video that covers several of the components of turbine noise and why it is not properly monitored.

2017

A study done by USA Today Network.

(Has since been dropped by the site 2022)
Landowners often overlook potential problems until it’s too late. Many who sign contracts can’t terminate the agreements, even if they later beg for relief from what they deem intolerable living conditions. Some covenants bar people from suing or even publicly criticizing the projects.

Medical doctor sees Wind Turbine Syndrome in his patients (Vermont) 8/1/2014

Testimony before the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) 7/29/14
My name is Sandy Reider, I am a primary care physician in Lyndonville, and I have been practicing clinical medicine in Vermont since I received my license in 1971.
That there have already been so many complaints here in Vermont related to wind turbines suggests that the current noise standards may be inadequate. Either the utilities have been regularly out of compliance with the current existing standards (Shirley Nelson’s detailed daily records suggest this has indeed occurred with some regularity) and/or that the scientific data and studies upon which the current noise standards are based is incomplete, or possibly just plain wrong.

However, good evidence for direct adverse effects has existed since the mid-80’s when Neil Kelley headed a group of researchers, under the auspices of the US Department of Energy and NASA, and found conclusive evidence that adverse effects, very similar to those that describe “wind turbine syndrome”, were due primarily to very low frequency sound and inaudible infrasound

Physician calls for 10 km setbacks (Australia) 9/26/2011

10KM = 6.2 miles
There are now well over 20 rural families in Australia, who have been forced to leave their homes because of serious health problems they have developed since the turbines commenced operating.
Some individuals have endured significant ill health and chronic severe sleep deprivation for 13 years, and have not often spoken publicly about it, because of the ridicule they have endured.

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