Reply #7: How often do cars catch on fire?

[boppers]

Is that grounds for banning cars in California because they aren't "green" enough? It's the same argument as you seem to be making.

(Oh, and you mean death knell, I think, unless that was an intentional black-humor pun on hillside winds).

As far as being educated about turbine failures, I should mention that my future marriage partner works for one of the largest turbine repair companies on the globe. As such, I'm party to statistics that few have access to, and have a really great set of resources and data to learn from.

Failures *do* happen, the technology *isn't* totally failsafe, and it *is* incredibly cost-intensive to set up a wind farm....

...Just like nuclear, solar, tidal, coal, geothermal, and hydro, there are risks and rewards. There is no "green" energy that doesn't have costs, risks, and rewards. Not one.

That's because energy, by itself, is so powerful (which is kind of the point of gathering energy).

So, while it's good for people to make educated decisions, but they shouldn't be so mislead as to think that wind turbines are worse than sky-scrapers, or that di-hydrogen monoxide should be banned.