Mr. Wayne Hunt
Councilman Town of Cohocton
Cohocton, New York
September 12, 2006
Dear Councilman Hunt,
I am in receipt of your public letter published in the Valley News on June 8th. You write in part "there is very little noise" in regards to wind turbines. I provide the following few of many items regarding wind turbine noise from organizations around the world:
1. "Turbines make noise, planning is key" --- Underwriter Laboratory (UL)
2. “The noise produced by wind turbines is a major factor in Europe, and it’s becoming an increasingly important issue, not only in the U.S., but throughout the world. Much of our investigative work is in this area and it occupies about 50% of my time”. --- Arlinda A. Huskey, Wind Turbine engineer and expert, National Energy Renewable Laboratory (NERL)
3. "105db" --- GE Wind Turbine technical specification
4. "Thanks to the evolution of both computer and electronic science it is now possible (and easy) to use the acoustic imagery technique to investigate the noise behaviour of a wind turbine under operation. This article introduces the beamforming technique used in acoustic imagery for noise problem troubleshooting." --- Press release, new product announcement in Windtech International.
Mr. Hunt, as two people who are not interested in theories; I would appreciate your view as to why these organizations and corporations are devoting resources, personnel, funding and indeed going so far as to develop products to help troubleshoot noise problems with these wind turbines. All this --- for an insignificant ("very little") condition that is as you wrote: "magical", "mythical" and "whimsical" "theories" by anti-wind groups?
James Lince
Cohocton, NY
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