There can only be two reasons why building windmills is seen as less fun than building nuclear power plants: (1) bad teaching of engineering. A good engineering problem is a good engineering problem (designing a good paper airplane is perhaps the most fun of anything); (2) penises. Nuclear power plants are seen as big guy penises, and windmills wimpy. Perhaps the solution is to design big thick vertical windmills with two smaller windmills on either side. That might get the attention.

yours,

Peter T.