I'm actually a pretty big fan of Ayn Rand's works, so all that aside ... How does it take "tens of thousands of acres" to house 1,000 wind turbines? All the wi

I'm actually a pretty big fan of Ayn Rand's works, so all that aside ... How does it take "tens of thousands of acres" to house 1,000 wind turbines? All the wind farms I've seen so far have a much higher turbine density than that -- on the order of 1 / acre at least. I also used to loathe wind farms as an example of a stupid resource sink, since I so often saw them sitting idle, and since I considered all of the energy required to manufacture and maintain the things versus their output. Turns out, I was wrong. I finally found some data -- at http://www.eoearth.org/article/Energy_return_on_investment_(EROI)_for_wind_energy http://www.eoearth.org/article/Energy_return_on_investment_(... -- and it turns out that wind kicks the pants off all the other energy generating systems we have, even nuclear, in terms of energy-return-on-investment. I think this article is factually wrong.