I live about 30 min from one of the largest wind farms in the country. A few major negatives about them: 1) They are the creepiest structures you will ever dri

I live about 30 min from one of the largest wind farms in the country. A few major negatives about them: 1) They are the creepiest structures you will ever drive by. They are not beautiful as described above. They are only beautiful to someone who has never been close to one in person. 2) In addition to the flicker you linked to, the sound/vibration from them is constant for those living near them. They are still bad for the people burdened with them in their communities, but because the efficiency of wind power is so low, no one else really benefits from the production of their energy. 3) The investors who put their money into them have an expected 99 year ROI on them. The only reason they went up was for some construction company to get energy credits from the government. 4) Environmentalists have taken to complaining about how the windmills are affecting migration patterns of birds and navigation of bats at night (it screws up their sonar). You can't win with environmentalists. You give in to their desires only to have them place new demands on you. They will never be happy.