facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts Windaction http://www.windaction.org/articles/c119+43?theme=atom Xarayar 2006-06-12T02:16:27Z .37266 2013-02-04T00:48:53Z 2013-02-04T00:48:53Z

Opponents of wind farms in the US and Canada insist that low-frequency noise generated by turbines is detrimental to human health. But in Germany, experts aren't convinced that infranoise poses a threat.

.35893 2012-08-28T16:54:25Z 2012-08-28T16:54:25Z

Enercon, Europe's largest wind turbine manufacturer, has a problem: The decision of the Bavarian Higher Regional Court in Munich about the wind turbine in Kienberg points out that in the E 82 turbine emits pulsed noise. Therefore to any actually measured sound level three decibels would have to be added.

.129 2004-04-05T20:24:53Z 2004-04-05T20:24:53Z

They introduced the world to "environmentally friendly" energy, but now some of Europe's "greenest" countries are under pressure to backtrack on wind farms as public anger grows over their impact on the countryside.

.7621 2007-01-27T14:57:46Z 2007-01-27T14:57:46Z

From Barton, Vermont, to the German border with Denmark and from the shores of Lake Huron, to the Romney Marches of southern England, wind power advocates are fighting crosswinds from local residents. In Barton in mid-January, a referendum overwhelmingly rejected the wind power turbines that were planned near this upper Vermont community. ...In Germany, where one-third of the world's current wind power is generated, doubters have provoked a loud debate. The company that owns the grid that includes nearly half the wind-farms in Germany reported its wind farms generated only 11 percent of their capacity. The company said the winds vary so much the wind farm had to be backed 80 percent by the conventional power grid.