Thank you Attorney Jablonski for an informative article regarding a unique problem with large wind turbines. Also, welcome to Substack! I recommend the GreenNUKE Substack https://greennuke.substack.com/ which as of March 25, 2026 has fifty (50) relevant articles which discuss various aspects of Diablo Canyon (Nuclear) Power Plant extended operations.
I hope we can do some more science to understand what’s actually happening because we need more of all clean energy, and if we need to site these differently, it’s good to know now! It’s also good to understand how hidden costs and impacts might shift the balance of whether other clean energy solutions are ultimately more effective.
Welcome to substack, even if you are a lawyer! (You might want to subscribe to fellow lawyer Jeff Childers' very successful 'C&C' substack).
Great post -very interesting. I'll surely be sharing some of your article from time to time.
I also recently read a post on the very high decibel (200!) intensity of low frequency sound waves (inaudible to humans but definitely affecting whales and fish) from offshore wind farm construction and operation.
Another person notified me of claims about sensitivity of marine animals. It is certainly plausible, but I have not seen evidence of harm outside of the noisy and disruptive construction phase. However, I have also not researched it. Do you have sources? The evidence rule for "judicial notice" includes "not reasonably disputed" language, and I try to hew to that (difficult as it is) in trying to figure out what information is sufficiently reliable to use to make judgments about "what is what." Thanks.
Interesting. Do we have any data on how far from the turbines these effects have been observed? Somebody surely has measured the magnitude of the waves as a function of distance?
When I lived is southern WA, I routinely traveled thru areas densely populated by wind turbines. During the summer, it was quite common to see groups of cattle standing next to the tower to get the shade. Do we have a reason why these animals were not affected?
Some ideas. It could be that the cattle you are seeing are the ones who are not affected (most people are not affected), and others are affected. An observation that some cattle seem unaffected is not enough data to infer that no cattle are affected. OTOH, it could be that all cattle have a different physiology that leaves them unaffected. We don't know.
It is 5% to 15% of human beings who experience serious motion sickness in circumstances where most of us do not. Is everyone afflicted with motion sickness triggered by SPSs? We don't know. Is everyone triggered by SPSs triggered in the same way/to the same extent? We don't know. Populations being what they are (variable), it seems very likely that there is a variation of response to SPS's among the subset of people who are sensitive.
As to distance, any analysis would be based on anecdotal information from people who are affected and who have some sense of how far away they are when their symptoms abate. Based on what I learned in diving into this topic, for those people who are sensitive, the experiences is so awful that they tend to stay "far enough" away if they can.
If it is a serious problem, as you suggest, then someone needs to put numbers on it. The obvious first step would be to measure the magnitude of the wave as a function of distance.
Those measurements wouldbe interesting. Single turbines are rare and the turbines in an array are not synched. So you are going to get interference wbich means some big peaks, sort of like a rogue wave.
Around 15 years ago as well I was rather intensely involved in another, much more overarching and major, enviro health issue, and encountered very similar industry/regulator response. This matter I suspected had bearing on industrial wind turbines as well, especially since many of the symptoms appear to correlate with this other matter - e-pollution. What I am seeing is thus far too nebulous to decide on causality. (I am not partial to such gargantuan HAWTs at all, I rather prefer VAWTs however these cannot it seems be scaled up enough to interest those stuck in modernist mania of gargantuaism.) But one thing absent from any control, would almost surely be be the presence of microwave transmissions plus spurious frequencies - "dirty electricity" - emanating from the wind projects. The sci lit on e-harm is immense, notwithstanding the mention of no one quitting homes by power plants. Grid-related dangers are well-documented, if basically ignored by "authorities". Look back to already the 70s in heroic journalism no longer seen in mainstream media for a long time, by Paul Brodeur, on wireless - even before mass cell telephony - and re grid-related. Decades later maybe the most well-known in this urgent genre is the late A Firstenberg's Invisible Rainbow (2016), now said to have sold >100,000 copies. As for sci lit, see eg the compendium at the Bioinitiative, all these for mere starters, the lit is huge and damning. I do not discount acoustical effects at all either.
Thank you Attorney Jablonski for an informative article regarding a unique problem with large wind turbines. Also, welcome to Substack! I recommend the GreenNUKE Substack https://greennuke.substack.com/ which as of March 25, 2026 has fifty (50) relevant articles which discuss various aspects of Diablo Canyon (Nuclear) Power Plant extended operations.
Thanks, Gene. I am subscribing. Glad you liked it.
This is super interesting, and also worrisome.
I hope we can do some more science to understand what’s actually happening because we need more of all clean energy, and if we need to site these differently, it’s good to know now! It’s also good to understand how hidden costs and impacts might shift the balance of whether other clean energy solutions are ultimately more effective.
Welcome to substack, even if you are a lawyer! (You might want to subscribe to fellow lawyer Jeff Childers' very successful 'C&C' substack).
Great post -very interesting. I'll surely be sharing some of your article from time to time.
I also recently read a post on the very high decibel (200!) intensity of low frequency sound waves (inaudible to humans but definitely affecting whales and fish) from offshore wind farm construction and operation.
Another person notified me of claims about sensitivity of marine animals. It is certainly plausible, but I have not seen evidence of harm outside of the noisy and disruptive construction phase. However, I have also not researched it. Do you have sources? The evidence rule for "judicial notice" includes "not reasonably disputed" language, and I try to hew to that (difficult as it is) in trying to figure out what information is sufficiently reliable to use to make judgments about "what is what." Thanks.
Acoustics - https://tos.org/oceanography/article/acoustic-impacts-of-offshore-wind-energy-on-fishery-resources-an-evolving-source-and-varied-effects-across-a-wind-farms-lifetime
Also, concerns about the large undersea power cables that send the power to the shore - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032118305355#
Interesting. Do we have any data on how far from the turbines these effects have been observed? Somebody surely has measured the magnitude of the waves as a function of distance?
When I lived is southern WA, I routinely traveled thru areas densely populated by wind turbines. During the summer, it was quite common to see groups of cattle standing next to the tower to get the shade. Do we have a reason why these animals were not affected?
Thanks for reading.
Some ideas. It could be that the cattle you are seeing are the ones who are not affected (most people are not affected), and others are affected. An observation that some cattle seem unaffected is not enough data to infer that no cattle are affected. OTOH, it could be that all cattle have a different physiology that leaves them unaffected. We don't know.
It is 5% to 15% of human beings who experience serious motion sickness in circumstances where most of us do not. Is everyone afflicted with motion sickness triggered by SPSs? We don't know. Is everyone triggered by SPSs triggered in the same way/to the same extent? We don't know. Populations being what they are (variable), it seems very likely that there is a variation of response to SPS's among the subset of people who are sensitive.
As to distance, any analysis would be based on anecdotal information from people who are affected and who have some sense of how far away they are when their symptoms abate. Based on what I learned in diving into this topic, for those people who are sensitive, the experiences is so awful that they tend to stay "far enough" away if they can.
On the cattle, point taken,
If it is a serious problem, as you suggest, then someone needs to put numbers on it. The obvious first step would be to measure the magnitude of the wave as a function of distance.
Those measurements wouldbe interesting. Single turbines are rare and the turbines in an array are not synched. So you are going to get interference wbich means some big peaks, sort of like a rogue wave.
Around 15 years ago as well I was rather intensely involved in another, much more overarching and major, enviro health issue, and encountered very similar industry/regulator response. This matter I suspected had bearing on industrial wind turbines as well, especially since many of the symptoms appear to correlate with this other matter - e-pollution. What I am seeing is thus far too nebulous to decide on causality. (I am not partial to such gargantuan HAWTs at all, I rather prefer VAWTs however these cannot it seems be scaled up enough to interest those stuck in modernist mania of gargantuaism.) But one thing absent from any control, would almost surely be be the presence of microwave transmissions plus spurious frequencies - "dirty electricity" - emanating from the wind projects. The sci lit on e-harm is immense, notwithstanding the mention of no one quitting homes by power plants. Grid-related dangers are well-documented, if basically ignored by "authorities". Look back to already the 70s in heroic journalism no longer seen in mainstream media for a long time, by Paul Brodeur, on wireless - even before mass cell telephony - and re grid-related. Decades later maybe the most well-known in this urgent genre is the late A Firstenberg's Invisible Rainbow (2016), now said to have sold >100,000 copies. As for sci lit, see eg the compendium at the Bioinitiative, all these for mere starters, the lit is huge and damning. I do not discount acoustical effects at all either.