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Like yourself I have no great problem with wind energy although there is an ongoing debate regarding the energy expended to create a farm vs energy recouped.
What really bothers me is that the location of the farms.
Wind farms are not just a matter of the turbines themselves, there is a whole infrastructure including access roads to each turbine, H/V cables and substations to be taken into consideration. A wind farm on a bleak hillside of say 200 turbines requires a number of main access roads plus a permanent access road, capable of carrying heavy construction vehicles, to each turbine. Thats well over over 200 roads being built through a wilderness area.
Personally I think we have a responsibility to protect our last few areas of wilderness from any kind of industrial development that could harm them. I would rather see windfarms located offshore with a tie-into to wave generation.

fitzcoraldo wrote:
Personally I think we have a responsibility to protect our last few areas of wilderness from any kind of industrial development that could harm them. I would rather see windfarms located offshore with a tie-into to wave generation.
Quite right too. There's a heck of a lot of sea out there, and it's got at least as much wind as the land has.

I'm all for windfarms if they're done properly, but I've read that some of the ones being proposed in the UK at present are tarnished by associations with dodgy companies who got turfed out of the industry on the continent for being a bunch of shysters.