The Australian fossil fuel industry has whipped up a rash of apparently psychosomatic health problems attributed to wind generators, as a scheme to impose a regulation that would make them too expensive to use.

Even if this were a real problem of wind generators, it would have to be compared with the health problems due to the likely alternative, coal-burning generators. We know that their pollution (which includes radioactive fallout) kills lots of people today, and that is not to mention the global heating disaster it contributes to.

Coal-burning power plants in Europe cause 22,000 premature deaths each year, in addition to making a much larger number of people sick.