The Australian government has full-grown plans for wind major power — like increasing its use ten - fold by 2020 . However , the planned elaboration may be at risk of exposure if authorities verify claims that the wind towers are make a nearby agriculture residential area sick .
Residents of the small tight-laced farming residential area of Waubra have avow that they ’ve experienced unwellness grade from stern headache and sickness , to increased inner ear pressure ever since nearby wind farm became operable — one man was even diagnose ( by his doctor , no less ) with electromagnetic spasms in his skull .
“ I started getting a sort of tingling in the head and concern and then it just , you could feel it eventually beget worse and worse , ” Carl Stepnell enounce , “ ( It ’s ) like being in a cabin of a sheet … it ’s just the ear pressure and headache and the nausea just in , the pressure in my ear – it did n’t go away . ” He blames the wind farm construct 900 m from his home caused such discomfort that he has had to move to Ballarat , 30 km to the South .
Electrical engineer Graeme Hood from the University of Ballarat was called in to investigate and , encounter that the turbines in reality produce sound at a frequency too low for humans to hear . “ The brain thinks it ’s quiet , but the auricle may be tell you something else or the body may be telling you something else , it ’s much louder , ” he read . However , this finding has done little more than further stoke the already contentious fight between twist farm supporters and detractors . The political science is has ordered further scientific testing as to the guard of hint farms . [ News.com.au – Image : Yuri Kouzmin ]
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