No! You are missing the point!
You see Windmills are the Ideological triumph over Science, Common Sense, and Cost Effectiveness and like the Photo of Stalin and Sadam Hussien in every home they must litter our landscape to remind us of the grandeous decisions the "MasterMinds" made for us Serfs.
It is a false idol, a tower of babble to Progressivism, Obama, and Gore, and believing in something that doesn't work, like all the forms of Communism.
They must stand their and remind you, always, just like Stalin's picture....
Your post #10 says it. These things are the creepiest damn things and I could not really explain why. You explain it well.
I see it a little differently.
I see them as monuments to crony capitalism.
These wind turbines show what can be done when a crony capitalist sees an opportunity to make money by taking advantage of a moment in time when activist for a given cause have created in government a coalition to accomplish a given end.
These opportunists then buy access to legislators with campaign cash and promises of more to come if legislation is written so as to pick the pockets of the taxpayers to benefit the crony capitalist.
At least with wind turbines there are visible signs of the greed of the crony capitalist and politicians. With something like Ethanol there is only the extra cost of your fuel and repair cost for your car.