Forbes.com reports on the findings of an exhaustive new study, released by Bentek Energy, a Colorado-based energy analytics firm. Rather than rely on computer models that use theoretical emissions data, the authors of the study, Porter Bennett and Brannin McBee, analyzed actual emissions data from electric generation plants located in four regions.

The conclusion:

• Wind energy's carbon dioxide-cutting benefits are vastly overstated
• The reductions are too expensive to be used on any kind of scale

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