Spoke with some ranchers/farmers around Post, TX not long ago where there are a lot of wind "farms". Quite a few had moved off the land (those that were fairly close to the turbines), all sorts of problems cropping up. I saw first hand empty houses, nice ones, unable to sell them because of this developing problem of living near the turbines.
The rotors create inner ear problems in some folks due to sudden pressure changes and harmonics (yes, there is science on this) among other phenomena, some weird stuff happening health wise. I know there are FReepers that are up on this better than I am for sure.
Add insult to injury, quite a few turbines were rotating but not producing due to lack of maintenance. They didn't want to shut down the rotors because by leaving them turning gives the impression of producing power.
Actually, they do. And mostly we stick them out in West Texas where there is no scenery anyway, and almost nobody living anywhere nearby.
The largest and most productive wind farm in the US isn’t in California. It’s in Texas.