Like you, I am ambivalent about these. But your photo has a stark beauty.

i love em... ive seen them throughout europe on hillsides,,, they look wonderful

grea picture!!!! marvelously for nature! Less marvelously for the eye! One man's joy is another man's sorrow......

I thought the whole wildlife argument was disproved, that migrating birds go around them - they certainly don't spin fast like a big fan. I love the look myself, very surreal - but more importantly would we rather have a nuclear plant on that horizon, or a nice fat coal plant pumping our the CO2? As trade offs go, wind just fine. Great shot btw, like the placement and contrast.

in West Texas there are thousands of these and what is so impressive is seeing a truck delivering the the biggest props.I have a post of one some where in my gallery.I have seen them several times on a street close to me but never had a chance to shoot

Great POV in this capture. I'm guessing that we will be seeing more of these, especially in the US. Dana

you captured things which are normal and simple! but with your pov it looks special and impressive! ;o)

I think wind turbines are generally beautiful, especially considering the options for our energy use and crave - in the USA. You captured these magically - that also helps!

I personaly think they look attractive enough, but thruth is they could be made to look much nicer and still work perfectly fine. They could be made to look like the old dutch wind mills. Another option is a totaly differant blade structure all together, one type that works quite well is a setup with the blades all parralle to the tower, in which the blades rotate around the tower. There is also the size, wind generators need not be huge, many small localized wind generators will generate power in lower speed winds than the large towers, plus there isn't the need for major additions to the power grid. The big reason all the real alturnative energy programs are being slowed or even simply buried is simple, they realy work better when they are local to use, such as roofs covered with solar pannels, small wind generators located around homes, etc. all things that scare weathy people, as they will no longer be able to bleed the poor people, once peoples energy is under there own control. We need to change the way we think about the world, as its the only one we have at the moment, we need real alturnative energy and we need it now. Peoples roofs need to be covered with tri-mode solar panels that use all the suns rays, sided with solar power generating paint/siding, with windows made from transparent solar power glass. Yards and roofs should have small wind generators. Homes whould be much more heavly insulated. Cars should be powered by batterys recharged by the homes solar and wind generators and should run on hydrogen for long trips generated from the homes spare electric power, and from fuel stations which use local on site solar, wind, etc. real renewable power to produce it. Business roofs need to be covered in solar pannels and wind generators, the glass needs to be replaced with transparent solar power glass. Every power transmision tower and power pole and light pole needs to be covered in solar pannels and have small wind generators, every county road needs to be lined with wind generators, every rail line needs to be lined with wind generators, huge solar farms and huge wind farms need to be put in the desert, we need to orbit huge solar power stations that beem power down to colecters in desert areas, we need to put huge wave generators in the oceans, we need to convert every dam so that it produces electricity, we need to place low RPM flow threw power generators in rivers and streams, we need to stop putting trash into land fills and setup so all trash is recycled and the recycling should reduce peoples trash bills not be an extra charge like it is now, we need to stop all burning of fossil fuels they are much better uses for them then fuel such as lubricants, plastics, sinthetic fibers, we need to cut down on packaging and make it more recycleable. And of corse this is just the begining, then we need to clean up the mess we have allready made on this world. Next is a real Space Program, ware we mine the solar system, place perminant bases on the Moon, teraform Mars, place perminant observatorys in space, send probes to the neerest stars, place perminat defencive platforms to protect us from large asteroids and comets which have destroyed life many times in the past and will again if we are not carefull, and on and on. Minning the asteroid belt will give us many resources, not the least of which is water/ice for the teraforming of mars. Creating minning ships that skim the edge of jupiter will give us hydrogen for the future fusion power plants that will power the future maned exploration and colonisation of other solar systems. Well I guess I should stop with the preaching, as I'm sure most people reading this probably have similar thoughts.