How Wind Turbines Destroy Your Health

There is a lot of 'information' on the news and in social media about how we must reduce the warming of the planet by switching to so-called green energy. Scientists, the overwhelming majority of them, don't agree that humans are actually causing climate change (more on that later). And yet, we are being forced to accept this as fact and that we must, in effect, destroy the environment in order to save it. How? By cutting down forests and ploughing through the best arable land on this planet to put up gigantic turbines, obliterating huge swathes of land for the necessary towers and transmission lines.

But what is the cost to HUMAN HEALTH of these machines?

Here are some facts and point to consider:

1. The subsonic noise of turbines, day and night, affects the mental state of humans and animals. Animals leave the area, having to find habitat and feeding grounds elsewhere. A woman in Victoria was recently awarded damages when she sued the wind farm which had caused her distress from the constant, intrusive noise.

2. The blades are made of carbon fibres and glued together with toxic substances that wear off into the environment and the air we breathe through what is called leading edge erosion. Look it up. It's real. The substance in the glue which is most scary is called BPA and it is banned around the world. It is an endocrine disruptor. It causes CANCER. Click here: BPA. It is banned from plastic food containers for very good reasons. Would you want to breathe it into your lungs?

3. The bases of turbines are massive platforms drilled and filled concrete, with steel reinforcing, 90m down into the soil, disrupting water courses and water sources and are so thick they can never be removed. 

4. Each turbine has an internal lubrication pump, which, incidentally, uses 25% of the power it generates. How much lubricant do you think one turbine uses in a year? 2000L. And any engineer will tell you that ALL pumps leak lubrication fluid. Where does it go? Straight down into the soil, into the water supply.

5. The mining required to produce, install and maintain a single turbine is horrific. Two tonnes of copper, alone. Then there's the steel and other minerals. And the battery stations, with their toxic mining practices and production. Exactly how is this helping reduce carbon emissions? Just because the mining happens in a poorer country where we can't see it, doesn't mean its clean energy or a clean industry.

I will add more to this page as the information comes to hand. At the moment its overwhelming and difficult to get it all out there at once!