This important editorial published by the editor board at the largest daily newspaper in Denmark responds to the recent 'Act on Facts' campaign launched by turbine maker, Vestas. An English translation of the piece is provided below.
"Act on Facts" is the name of a global campaign that the wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems has launched against what the company describes as 'a small but well-organized and influential minority that has succeeded in launching some outrageous claims about wind power' .Read more »
"We now take of the gloves and will provide quality rebuttals to our often unscrupulous opponents," declared Communications and Marketing Director Morten Albaek.
But their campaign was hardly launched before Professor Henrik Moller, civil engineer Steffen Pedersen and Associate Professor Christian Victory Pedersen from Aalborg University sent a letter to the editor of this newspaper on 28 June sharply criticizing Vestas' attempt to monopolize the truth about wind energy that would be biased in favor of the company.
Not surprisingly, noise is a central issue in "Act on Facts," and where Vestas argues, among other things, that the noise of a wind turbine from 400 meters away is less than the noise of an average refrigerator.
With sober scientific clarity, the three experts from Aalborg University counter-claim that wind turbines make noise 10 decibels more than an average refrigerator. Let us point out that a difference of 10 decibels is considerable.
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