Bingo! That's what we found out. Plus they're ugly, the whine can cause all sorts of reactions to those near enough (jury still out on that), and they kill birds.
The birds may eventually adapt their flight path, but even little birds haven't learned not to fly into plate glass.
I'm more for those smaller windmills that for one local acreage owner or farmer seems to have paid for itself in 7 years or less, it supplies all his electricity needs, and he has extra to sell back to the grid at the going rate.
I don't know what they would be in terms of maintenance costs, however. Every farmer who would want one of those smaller ones, I'd be all for that.
Interesting this comes at the same time the old-fashioned windmills have mostly disappeared, and the ones that remain, there is a nostalgia for and many find them of photographic interest as some also do with the huge, monster ones.
....I live in the southern Appalachians and we fought off wind farms 2 years ago in my county...but I know they’ll keep coming...they are mostly outfits from out of state who think we’re rubes, so they can run it by us...they play on people’s save-the-planet emotions...they never talk about the drawbacks that your post mentioned...or say that in the winter those turbines throw off boulder-sized blocks of ice.