Sound Energy Around Us

Pause for a few seconds and see what you can hear around you. Maybe it's far from where you're but it's still enough to catch ears' attention.

The vibration from objects produces waves that our ears perceive as sounds. Sound energy can be in music, laughter, or animal calls and cries. It can also come from falling or breaking objects such as glasses and metals. In short, sound energy is everywhere.

Sounds as one of the forms of energy have a great deal of influence on our lives. It's the energy that wakes up every moment. From the door slamming, flowing water to ocean water waves. The energy in the sounds we hear comes from the vibration of the waves that travel through mediums such as air, water, etc.

Human life and nature have been a wonder of sounds that signify life and message. From the sea sounds of waves to the wind and the soothing sound of rain and thunderclaps in the clouds. A clap of our hands, moving planes, trains, and waterfalls all produce sound energy. 

• Nature communicates its strength through waves of sounds that we can interpret. The sounds of leaves in the moving air currents signify the passing breeze.

• The sounds can influence how our minds and bodies behave. For example, the sounds of music make us dance and feel good. Unwanted sounds can have a range of mental health effects.

• Sound energy keeps the brain monitoring for the sounds associated with danger, therefore it's a means of survival in nature. This happens even during sleep.

• Some animals like bats and dolphins use sound waves (echolocation) as energy that allows them to detect danger and locate their prey. Therefore ensure their survival.

• Ultrasound is a high-intensity sound wave. Its energy is used to detect tumors in the bodies of patients, monitor pregnancy development, and scan other internal body structures for medical purposes. Furthermore in other fields, some devices use ultrasound energy to detect objects and measure distance. 

• The vigorous energy from sound waves makes strong sounds which can be perceived as pollutant energy or mind and body electrifying energy.

• Sounds are a means through which nature expresses what is going on.

The Impact of Sound Energy

Human life is positively and negatively impacted by the energy from the sound waves. Auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health are contributed by pollutant sound energy in busy cities leading to hearing, heart, mental, and sleeping problems.

• Noise pollutants can cause sleeping disorders in people who live in an environment where sound energy is a problem. Difficulty in falling asleep, inability to stay asleep, and waking too early are linked to sound energy pollution.

• Also, people may experience mental issues such as stress, anger, and frustration.

• In addition, sound energy from noise disturbances may contribute to hearing disorders such as abnormal loudness perception, tinnitus which leads to an unending high-pitched ringing in the ears, and paracusis which is an impaired sense of hearing.

• Moreover, high intensity of sound energy can cause heart disease and high blood pressure.

Animals' behavior can be affected by noise pollution, especially wildlife. Also, the environmental quality can be disturbed by sound energy pollution. People tend to be calmer and at peace when in the area of weak or low waves of sounds. Think of the cool waves of the wind breeze in the peaceful evening.

The higher the waves of sounds, the higher the body temperature becomes. People tend to boost the level of their performance in their daily activities with energy from waves of sounds through music, songs, and dances.

We perceive sound energy as noise if it disturbs our energy level and psychological mood. Nowadays in towns and cities, noise pollution is a common thing. The sounds of moving vehicles, music, and gatherings of people contribute much to negative energy from sounds.

Surrounding ourselves with calmer sound waves can be associated with happiness and peace. We can therefore turn around our lives by using energy from waves of sounds. 

The Future of Sound Energy Problem

It's even fascinating, that a research paper published in the International Journal for Research and Applied Science Technology, shows that scientists are figuring out how to harness electricity and put into usefulness the pollutant noise from the waves of sound produced in industries, airports, railways, and so on.

The findings apply IoT(Internet of Things) technology. It refers to all interrelated devices connecting and sharing as well as exchanging data with other IoT devices and the cloud.

• It is possible to transform noise energy into other useful forms of energy like heat or electric energy by following a simple yet artful principle of energy conservation: Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, but it can be transformed into a different form of energy.

• The future of renewable energy sources is good. Sound buzzers, microphones, and speakers can be installed everywhere so that the pollutant sound energy can be converted into electric energy.

Sound Energy has proven to be the best company for our daily activities. It's both a sign of life activities and an alarm of an unsettled society full of noise pollutants everywhere. 

We can go from making it worse to making it better by turning the stressful noise and negative energy from sounds into useful forms of energy using technology. Let's embrace the beauty of sounds in nature by listening to songbirds, waterfalls, and soothing wind breezes.