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“I know of no qualified mechanical, electrical or power engineers who support the development of these expensive, inefficient and unreliable wind turbines.” With ten years experience at Stone & Webster and four decades if experience in industrial and environmental noise impact assessment, I concur. I am aware of a several registered professional engineers working in the acoustics industry who take contracts for “sound studies” for permitting wind turbine development. However, based on the data reviewed, it appears certain that they have to abandon their professional ethics in order to issue bland assurances of no impact on neighbors (or they avoid discussing impacts completely, which is a frank violation of a foundational principle of engineering, to protect public safety health and welfare).