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Article #174: Noise Pollution and Fighting it with Acoustic Foam

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Noise pollution (or environmental noise in you could make as much noise as you wanted
technical areas and venues) is termed as and it wasn't a problem. Nowadays
displeasing or annoying human or basically we have people living on top of
mechanically caused sound that is or can each other, underneath each other and in
be described as alien to the environment. fact all over the place and more
I guess to most of us the major source of importantly interfacing with modern day
this pollution would come from technologies in ways that hitherto would
transportation systems, as anyone who has have thought to have been impossible. As
tried to hire a car from the main AVIS car such the use of the acoustic foam and the
rental depot at Heathrow Airport would noise dampening systems are essential. If
testify to. Based on the perimeter road at we take for example the situation in many
Heathrow sometimes the noise of landing cities nowadays when we have whole
747's can make it a little difficult plethoras of modern communication links
explaining to the attendant what problems such as underground railway systems, over
you may have had (or not) with the car you ground railway systems, modern two-way
are returning. However before we all start flyovers and in fact transports
to assume that noise pollution is purely communications and residential
something that occurs in major cities let accommodation right next to each other.
us consider the effect of noise pollution Without adequate noise reduction systems
in rural communities. Now noise from in place and incorporated within the
recreational vehicles has become quite a structure of the residential and work
major issue with the rural communities. accommodation than pretty quickly life
Quad Bikes or All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's) within these new cities would become
have become a serious problem in the pretty intolerable. As we have said
countryside. They have increased massively before, enter stage left acoustic foam.
in popularity and are joining the more Without these new technologies providing
traditional two wheeled bikes as the the noise insulation, the quality of life
vehicle of choice for off road riding. The in most built up areas would be appalling.
bottom line is that we live in a noisy At this point it becomes pretty obvious to
world and by that I mean not just the all concerned quite what a debt we owe to
sound of cars and traffic etc but the way noise reduction systems and soundproofing
we live our lives and perhaps more in general that quite often mere words on
importantly where we are now living and no longer enough. Having lived in the
the density of the accommodation we centre of London and also spent time on
provide ourselves. In the old days when the northwest coast of County Donegal in
basically all you had to worry about was Ireland, when it comes to noise pollution
the old cottage in the middle of the field I know which one I prefer.
6 miles away from the nearest neighbour






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