Tranquility
I visited Dryholme farm near Silloth at the weekend and recorded the sound produced by the CHP generators. The racket is in the middle of this video. Please don't turn your headphone volume up too high. What I find most disturbing is not just the decibel level but the sheer psychological relentlessness of it. Deeply disturbing. Duncan Findlay, (the owner/manager) explained one of the exhausts needed a weld after a backfire (what, they backfire as well!) but what remained was the sense that the low level bass rumble would travel a long way even if the top end probably drops off with distance, something that an unqualified, sound technician doing a sound map and survey for the application process is not going to take into consideration. There are some wonderful books on sound ecology by Bernie Krause which suggest a very violent human sound pollution drowning out the natural world, biophony, and despite repeated emails I can't find anyone to stick up for red squirrels and what effect this noise will have on all the other wild-life here?
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