Do Wind Turbines Affect Human Health?
A colleague sent me this piece from New York Magazine on the so-called “wind-turbine syndrome,” a name given to the health effects that some people say are caused by living close to wind farms. This syndrome is not accepted by scientists and doctors, and my colleague, a practicing psychologist, notes: “The psychology of fulfilling the prophesy, i.e., getting the symptoms after reading about them, is so true.”
In any case, this is a terrific article on the subject.
Allocating funds for sustainable progress is fast becoming a mandatory survival parameter for companies worldwide. With the climate change concerns mounting heavily by drastic weather conditions (consider the polar vortex), companies are realizing that they should shift to the green gear while there is still time. With the global fossil fuel supply running out every second in heavy consumption, full investment in alternative energy options is only a matter of time. From automobile manufactures to telecom services, everyone has to go green or perish. 
A very senior businessman I’ve known for a long while has asked me to serve as a panelist for a conference his group is putting on next September in San Diego. He writes, “I assume (your expertise) falls into two areas — what are investors looking for, as well as any of the topics related to energy.”
My colleague Jim Boyden (PhD, physics, Cal Tech, 1960) was kind enough to brief me on the highlights of the meeting of the American Physical Society at the University of California at Berkeley last weekend. The core of the meeting, apparently, was an update on climate change (what can we expect, and when can we expect it), and the status of the major technologies that may come to bear to help us migrate away from fossil fuels while there is still time to avert catastrophe. 
