SGU Episode 432 - Revision history

Av8rmike: Fix qow

2013-11-11T03:30:47Z

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Av8rmike: Not latest episode; fix qotw link

2013-11-11T03:30:27Z

Not latest episode; fix qotw link

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 E: There is also evidence suggesting that the feedback that people get from each other, if you start, two people tell two other people and they start telling other people, yeah the symptoms will actually spread because people will start associating whatever little aches, pains or just comforts that they're experiencing and they're going to attribute it to, oh well it must be the wind turbines that John down the street is experiencing.  And it's been proven that this is a real psychological effect that takes place in communities.
-R: And you know when yuo're talking about the choice of target here and what could be causing these non-specific problkems, I think there might be another thing going on here which I will call NIMBY-ism.  I think they have a severe case of NIMBY-itis, or Not In My Back Yard -itis.
+R: And you know when yuo're talking about the choice of target here and what could be causing these non-specific problkems, I think there might be another thing going on here which I will call NIMBY-ism.  I think they have a severe case of NIMBY-itis, or Not In My Back Yard -itis.  Because, having lived in Boston during the Cape Wind Project's approval process, it was really astonishing to see the excuses that rich people came up with to prevent the turbines from going in.  And this isn't to suggest that there aren't often real concerns about wind turbines, for instance their environmental impact, but the arguments against the wind turbines going in where they went in which was in Nantucket Sound were primarily things like "this will affect the yachting routes".
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2013-11-05T15:56:43Z

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 S: That's just a coincidence, Evan.  That has nothing to do with her medical opinions here.
-E: Well yeah.  She lives in New York, in upstate New York and she calls Wind Turbine Syndrome the green energy industry's dirty little secret.  She published a book in 2009 called "Wind Turbine Syndrome" which included case studies of people that lived within 1.25 miles of these wind turbines and they reportedly got sick.  So, once again we must step back from all the noise and the anecdotes and the politics, and ask ourselves, "what is the evidence"?  What is the evidence which supporting the claim that wind turbines are the cause of these peoples' symptoms?  So, has this been studied?  Yeah it has, actually.  There have been a lot of studies about this.  So, modern wind farms have been in use around the world for decades.
+E: Well yeah.  She lives in New York, in upstate New York and she calls Wind Turbine Syndrome the green energy industry's dirty little secret.  She published a book in 2009 called "Wind Turbine Syndrome" which included case studies of people that lived within 1.25 miles of these wind turbines and they reportedly got sick.  So, once again we must step back from all the noise and the anecdotes and the politics, and ask ourselves, "what is the evidence"?  What is the evidence which supporting the claim that wind turbines are the cause of these peoples' symptoms?  So, has this been studied?  Yeah it has, actually.  There have been a lot of studies about this.  So, modern wind farms have been in use around the world for decades.  But only in more recent years, perhaps the last five years or so have human-health-related complaints been reported.  There have now been 17 reviews of available evidence about wind farms.  These are reviews of all studies, not just single pieces of research and each of these reviews have concluded that wind turbines can annoy a minority of people in their vicinity, but there's not strong evidence that they make people ill at all.  So, what else might be going on here?  We don't have just like one or two people, we've got in some communities dozens of people all claiming to have similar kinds of symptoms.  Where have we heard this before, where have we seen this before?
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2013-11-05T15:48:48Z

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 R: I've been there.
-E: Have filed lawsuits claiming that three 400-foot tall,
+E: Have filed lawsuits claiming that three 400-foot tall, 1.63 megawatt turbines were responsible for an array of adverse health effects.  The symptoms being reported by the residents include headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, dizziness, sensations of fluttering in the chest and that's just to name a few, there's even more than that.
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2013-11-05T15:39:29Z

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	* http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2013/oct/beyond-antibiotics-%E2%80%9Cppmos%E2%80%9D-offer-new-approach-bacterial-infection		* http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2013/oct/beyond-antibiotics-%E2%80%9Cppmos%E2%80%9D-offer-new-approach-bacterial-infection

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	* http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wind-turbine-syndrome-blamed-mysterious-symptoms-cape-cod/story?id=20591168		* http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wind-turbine-syndrome-blamed-mysterious-symptoms-cape-cod/story?id=20591168

			S: Alright, let's move on. Evan, you're going to tell us about this new dangerous health scare, Wind Turbine Syndrome.

			E: Dun, dun, duuuum.

			J: Wait a second. What, are people's ears flopping, like what's happening Ev?

			E: Yeah, so here's what's happening. Several residents of Falmouth Massachusetts, which is on Cape Cod...

			R: I've been there.

			E: Have filed lawsuits claiming that three 400-foot tall,

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Rwh86: auto skel, show notes

2013-10-27T13:32:11Z

auto skel, show notes

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== Introduction ==
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[http://csironewsblog.com/2013/10/23/gum-leaves-rich-in-lil-gold-nuggets/ Item #3]: Researchers find that eucalyptus trees concentrate gold in their leaves, and in some areas represent a significant source of the mineral.

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