The power industry is slow to adopt change for a reason, that being a conventional power plant may have a lifespan of over 50 years. This is why there was such

The power industry is slow to adopt change for a reason, that being a conventional power plant may have a lifespan of over 50 years. This is why there was such a call for nuclear power decades ago, to avert the problems of using vast amounts of depleting fossil fuels. There's already concern growing over the wind farms affecting weather and not just weather, but also causing changes in soil hydration. Potentially mass adoption of wind turbines risks increasing desertification and damaging crop production. Slow adoption can be good and in the case of wind power, it's better to fix the problems now than cause disasters later. We're causing global warming from fossil fuel use, but if we do a mass switch to wind turbines before the problems are solved, we're risking desertification on an unrecognisable scale. Not to mention risking mass extinction of bird species. This is why helical wind turbines are attracting so much attention, because instead of mixing air vertically, they mix it horizontally, which if not reduces actually eliminates the risk of desertification and the potential damage to crop yields. It also reduces damage to bird populations due to helical wind turbines generally having a smaller impression on the land, which incidentally boosts efficiency for a given area. It would be nice if all our fossil fuel plants had been changed to a mix of nuclear and green, but just like Nuclear had a dangerous start, it's wise not to have Green make a dangerous start and stall the production of Green energy for 40-50 years like we did Nuclear.