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In a spin... professor claims wind farms can cause seizures
Fast-turning wind turbines could trigger seizures, a University of Essex professor has discovered.
Arnold Wilkins, a neuropsychology lecturer at the university, found turbines rotating more than sixty times a minute could provoke epileptic seizures.
Prof Wilkins, who heads up the university's Visual Perception Unit, worked with researchers at Aston University, Birmingham, to assess whether the flickering of sunlight caused by the shadow of wind turbines could affect photosensitive people. ..."There are guidelines now to prevent flickering adverts on TV. There needs to be the same regulations with wind turbines."
May 1, 2008
by Helen Orrell
in North Essex Gazette
Fast-turning wind turbines could trigger seizures, a University of Essex professor has discovered.
Arnold Wilkins, a neuropsychology lecturer at the university, found turbines rotating more than sixty times a minute could provoke epileptic seizures.
Prof Wilkins, who heads up the university's Visual Perception Unit, worked with researchers at Aston University, Birmingham, to assess whether the flickering of sunlight caused by the shadow of wind turbines could affect photosensitive people.
The study found the faster the turbine or the more blades it has, the greater its chance of causing seizures, while wind farms posed a cumulative risk, which could last more than four... [continue via Web link]
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