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  That was precisely my point: wind is not affecting coal (but if it is, it appears to be increasing it -- though as you say, there are so many other stronger factors).On One doctor’s quest to sound the alarm on ‘wind turbine syndrome’ posted 1 week, 6 days ago 60 Responses

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  But the 2007 coal/electricity ratio is higher than 2005's and not much changed from 2002-2005. 2006 appears to be an anomalistically high coal year, perhaps due to quality.On One doctor’s quest to sound the alarm on ‘wind turbine syndrome’ posted 2 weeks ago 60 Responses

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  As I already clarified, the critics cited in this article are all from the wind industry: http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-16-nina-pierpont-quest-to-sound-the-alarm-on-wind-turbine-syndrome/#c259042 As for the urgency of climate change, first, that is not the issue here. You can't dismiss legitimate concerns such as the frequently attested health effect of wind turbine noise by simply shutting your ears and shouting "climate change". Second, if you want to steamroller all local concerns, you need very strong evidence that "Wind is a very good way to accomplish that end" of combatting climate change -- that is, in the cost-benefit analysis, the benefit has to be awfully large to trump the many costs of such industrial development.On One doctor’s quest to sound the alarm on ‘wind turbine syndrome’ posted 2 weeks ago 60 Responses

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  Wouldn't the analogy with tobacco be the other way around? That is, that the wind developers have done the studies but buried them? After all, we're talking Enron and GE here.On One doctor’s quest to sound the alarm on ‘wind turbine syndrome’ posted 2 weeks ago 60 Responses

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  Saving you the research, here are the numbers for 2007. 2008 numbers may be available in January 2010. Receipts of Coal Delivered for the Electric Power Industry, 2007: 1,016,236,000 tons Direct Use and Retail Sales of Electricity, Total Electric Industry, 2007: 3,923,814,234 MWh Coal delivered per electricity used, 2007: 0.258992 tons/MWhOn One doctor’s quest to sound the alarm on ‘wind turbine syndrome’ posted 2 weeks ago 60 Responses