Wind whips up health fears

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While I can't say anything for certain about the electrical field effects or low-frequency effects, what I can say with certainty is that the blades create a low pressure zone in their vicinity. Low atmospheric pressure that explodes bats' lungs can also cause discomfort in humans, especially those with arthritis or other joint diseaes, or those with respiratory problems. Combined with the potential of the two aforementioned problems, I say go slowly.

So while I am for alternative energy, I think we need to better gauge the subtle effects before we set them up willy-nilly depending upon how profitable the location seems. Nature doesn't waste much, so why should we assume that the wind energy we are intercepting isn't vital to something downstream, so to speak? I'm not advocating not using wind energy, but rather doing so slowly and making sure we aren't creating a problem too big to rectify quickly.