The issue focused on a study by a research group of environmental science professors at the University of Nebraska, which examined whether wind energy installations could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. The researchers found that although the installation of new wind turbines in the developing world reduced the emissions of greenhouse gases from existing power plants by 33 percent, those emissions actually increased.


While coal-fired plants have plenty of emissions to offset, wind turbines emit relatively little climate change-friendly pollution. While wind turbines account