Do Wind Turbines Create Harmful Low Frequency Noise?

This issue comes up continually. No wind turbines do not create harmful low frequency noises.

USA Today addressed this issue well: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/04/green-energy-fact-checked/72390472007/

The issue: Do wind turbines create harmful, low-frequency noises?  

The answer: Sound from wind turbines may be annoying, but it has no established adverse health effects, according to Peter Thorne, a professor and head of the University of Iowa’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health.

Some opponents have said that turbines emit a low-frequency “infra-sound” that causes headaches, nausea and other problems. But a report published in 2019 found no link between health outcomes and proximity to turbines.

While researchers said the symptoms were often real, they were linked to beliefs and negative expectations, not the turbines.

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