List of figures

Figure i.1 The progression of nervousness.
Figure 1.1 James Blyth’s first electricity generating windmill.
Figure 1.2 Rodney and Otamatea Times (New Zealand), 14 August 1912.
Figure 1.3 The windmill at Westerfield, photographed in 1925.
Figure 1.4 Dunlite windmill in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Photograph by John Nielsen.
Figure 1.5 Southern Cross windmills in Australia.
Figure 1.6 Windfarm projects under construction in Australia, 2017.
Figure 1.7 My most retweeted tweet.
Figure 1.8 Water-bombing aircraft at Waterloo windfarm in South Australia.
Figure 2.1a Google Trend worldwide data ‘wind turbine syndrome’, 8 March 2017.
Figure 2.1b Google Trend Australian data for ‘wind turbine syndrome’, 8 March 2017.
Figure 2.2 Spectrum of sound by frequency (Hz to kHz).
Figure 2.3 Hearing thresholds for a young adult.
Figure 3.1 The village of Avignonet-Lauragais in the commune of Haute-Garonne in south-western France.
Figure 3.2 Wind turbines surrounding suburban Copenhagen, Denmark.
Figure 3.3 A micro-turbine in Jubilee Park in the inner Sydney surburb of Glebe, New South Wales.
Figure 3.4 David Mortimer as pictured in the King Island Courier in April 2013.
Figure 4.1 Extract from a Korean fan manual warning people not to sleep with the fan running, for fear of ‘fan death’.
Figure 5.1 Subject being contemporaneously exposed to infrasound and audible windfarm sound in the Acoustic Research Centre listening room.
Figure 5.2 Subject undergoing hearing screening test in the listening room with view into the sound control room.
Figure 5.3 Changes from baseline in symptom number, symptom intensity, and mood scores.
Figure 6.1 A desultory anti-windfarm rally organised by Stop These Things, Canberra, 18 June 2013.