Wind Power is More Dangerous than Coal or Oil

"Wind Power is More Dangerous than Coal or Oil"

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/06/26/wind-power-is-more-dangerous-than-coal-or-oil/

To project changes in workplace safety from switching to wind from coal, it is necessary to know the mortality rate per megawatt-hour.  The low number of total deaths in the wind-power industry is undermined by the very low amount of power generated by wind.  Adjusting for power production yields a surprising result.  On a million-megawatt-hour basis, the wind-energy industry has averaged 0.0220 deaths compared with 0.0147 for coal over the years 2003-2008.  Even adding coal's share of fatalities in the power-generation industry, which brings the rate up to 0.0164, still leaves wind power with a 34 percent higher mortality rate.  For the record, the workplace fatality rate for wind also exceeds that for oil and gas on an equivalent-energy basis.