Article 6CFG8 No evidence windfarm noise disturbs sleep any more than road traffic, study finds

No evidence windfarm noise disturbs sleep any more than road traffic, study finds

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Five-year Flinders University project played wind turbine and road traffic audio samples to nearly 70 participants in a sleep laboratory

Noise from windfarms is no more disruptive to sleep than traffic sounds, new Australian research has found.

A study by sleep researchers at Flinders University has also revealed that very low-frequency windfarm noise is not audible to the human ear, either while awake or asleep.

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