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Listing of windfarm accidents

Written by Neil Craig
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
I did read the SoS article & was not impressed by Ewan's paens of praise to the beauty of turbines, indeed I sent them the undernoted letter. We will see if they publish next Sunday. The point I was making is not that windmills are particularly dangerous but that, by comparison, nuclear is overwhelmingly safer - something their supporters are not keen to acknowledge. Dear Editor, In defending windfarms Ewan Morrison (article Sunday) says that the 52 deaths caused by wind turbines worldwide are unimportant because "Wow, you'd be hard pushed to find anything that killed that few. Perhaps choking on a toothpick". May I help him out with another example. This is the same number who died in the Chernobyl "disaster" in 1986. To be fair in making comparisons we should acknowledge that, in the years since, while producing nearly 20% of the world's electricity, a further 2 people have died in one accident in Japan. Well done to the wind industry in matching nuclear's total accident record while producing nearly 1% as much power & at only 10 times the cost. Accident Statistics

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