I actually made the round trip drive from LA to Phoenix a while back. I found the wind farms to be an interesting view. I mean what is the problem? Nothing else was growing there.
Seriously, I have lived in Massachusetts for most of my life. I have never been to Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket. I could not care any less about the view that Kerry and the Kennedy's have problems with while they are out there yachting. That is how I and likely most others see where the contention lays concerning this matter.
Is wind capturing a bogus science? I suppose it might be. I also suppose that it makes more sense to exploit wind than it does fossil fuels. Some of the other posters here on this thread do not seem willing to acknowledge the fact that oil is a resource which is likely finite and also under the proprietorship (mostly) of hostile societies.
Capturing energy wind from off shore which is out of the line of site of the vast majority of citizens seems like a pretty good idea to me.
As for the whales, well I have never actually seen a whale in person. I am not saying that they do not exist, I just do not personally know any whales. I do know a Bible verse however. I understand that many do not know nor care about what the Bible says. Still, it is true that Humans have dominion over the Earth, and if the whales have a problem with it then they should adapt or get some ear plugs or some other remedy to their problems with our dominion.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
(Whole Chapter: In context: )
But what constitutes a "nice desert view" is in the eye of the beholder. :)
Just wait until those old antiques get repowered with modern windmills. Then you'll see some serious beauty.