I agree with Jon that we have visited far worse man-made constructions on our landscapes than wind turbines. Roads are often scars, especially during the building phase and only ever achieve some beauty when as a set of switchbacks on a rugged mountain cliff or as they cross straight through a barren plain or over flat bog land. Housing estates are the monotonous, unimaginative droppings of real-estate investors. Mills and mines of all kinds ruin the land they are on and that surround them, soot and dumps covering once lush, wild lands. Rich land owners dump monstrous monuments to their egos in verdant fields. Governments erect concrete blocks to house cables and water pumps without a thought for the landscape around them.
Compared to solar farms or nuclear power stations wind turbines are the aesthetic choice. Only a solar heating farm can compare in magnificence but the blazing wonder of these solar plants wane as the harsh glare creeps in.
Wind turbines though can be elegant and beautiful. Tall, slender giants quietly gliding over the ground generating clean energy in tune with nature’s forces. En masse they create a hypnotic effect and on their own you’ll often crane your neck to see a bit more as far off a tip of a blade crests a hill. Out at sea they seem like sentries and are in sympathy with the sail boats that move past.
There is a small one on my way to work each morning and on calm days I miss the sinuous curve of its blades bringing energy to earth.
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