What kind of program produced that linked article, Suibhne O'Piobaireachd? Weird. I finally gave up on reading it.

Judging by what I've been told in the US I don't agree with the woefully inefficient, ugly, etc description. In the proper spots, they evidently do a great job. I was told in Palm Desert, California, that they produce power for the entire town.

It is true that seeing the wind farms for the first time took me aback. Whole grids of whirling turbines, of different sizes and set at different heights. It was a futuristic scene, for sure.

Traveling by train over the US I saw many wind farms, some large, some quite small, others, as in Pennsylvania, set in a single line on a hill ridge overlooking the town..