[familyop]

"Are you west of Eastern New Mexico? Would you enjoy your ranch house bathed in the red glow of the hazard lights atop the forest of windmills at night? I don’t know where property rights fits in there. I hate the sight of the @#$$%^ things. Too bad they were stone still when we were having sub-zero temps this winter!"

Nope. You probably already guessed that I'm not a New Yorker, Californian or any variation of such. I'm in the middle of nowhere on the Rockies. Some New Yorkers down the road hate wind turbines, but they're not even within seeing distance. They can have some say in the matter, when they buy enough acreage to avoid seeing them.

I'll build what I want to build here, including a small, 10-foot, scary (to some) wind turbine for about 700 watts about half the time (an extra kilowatt with the new controller). The HOA queens and other globalistic./commie regulators can't cross the "no tresspassing" signs on the private road entrance a few miles away.

...little different situation here. I'm just saying that propaganda efforts against all wind turbines in general are stupid and had best be narrowed to those of subsidy-sucking power companies. ...need to ditch the commie subsidies/tax credits for PV (solar) electric modules, too. Such government welfare only hikes prices and kills better business.

[nascarnation]

I'm just saying that propaganda efforts against all wind turbines in general are stupid

Machine Design is an engineering trade publication with no political axe to grind. Here's their take, and so far nobody has submitted any rebuttals.

http://beta.machinedesign.com/article/leland-teschlers-editorial-how-much-power-does-it-take-to-run-a-wind-turbine-0810