Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on Today at 01:50:04 AM

Quote from: mikeywith on August 12, 2024, 08:48:57 AM

I don't know the whole context, but it is possible that they meant they were not aware that the noise reaches that far

they can't go out into the community and see if the noise reaches it ? but yet they can spend millions of dollars to set up a mining facility. i call BS on that. they were just hoping no one would complain.

Shirley says that he is monitoring the decibel levels of the facility. Texas state law stipulates that a noise is considered unreasonable if it exceeds 85 decibels. For comparison, vacuum cleaners often run at around 75 decibels—and a cardiologist told TIME in 2018 that chronic exposure to anything over 60 decibels had the potential to do harm to the cardiovascular system. Shadden took her own readings at her house near the Bitcoin mining facility that reached 103 decibels.

103 decibels seems like a very large noise level to have to listen to 24/7/365. But I'm not sure I believe some of those residents saying how they had all kinds of health problems from the noise. I think people have a way of lying about stuff like that. Just to try and make a point. Noise doesn't cause tumors and things like that. So those residents should stick to the truth and not try and embellish anything. It just makes them look bad when they do that.

103 db nonstop sound is pretty much unbearable to live with.

the plant should do a better job than 103 db.