Would you drive your car if it exploded when the brakes failed? When these turbines get a few years old, or heaven forbid we get microgeneration everywhere, they are going to become a real hazard.
There are benefits and risks in almost anything, Hadron.
Would you continue jumping out of perfectly good airplanes if there was a good chance that you could die?
26 people have died doing that in 2008, so far.
61 people died doing that in 2007.
60 people died doing that in 2006.
61 people died doing that in 2005.
http://www.dropzone.com/fatalities/index.shtmlDo you propose that everyone stop skydiving?
What about driving a car?
There were 38,588 fatal motor vehicle crashes in 2006 in the US alone, with 42,642 fatalities.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspxDo you propose that everyone stop driving?