The Oil Drum

For the life of me, I cannot figure out the complaints about the looks of turbines.  I think they're beautiful.  They look to me like immense kinetic sculptures, monuments to human ingenuity and our ever renewable hope for a better future.  All they need is some Philip Glass background music.

I live in NY State, in the flat region along the southern shore of Lake Ontario.  I fully expect to see turbines every-frickin-where in time, from utility-scale white ones like this in the photo above to smaller, vertical-axis models on individual businesses, outlying government buildings, schools, etc., as it's amazingly windy here at times.  (I guess our Canadian friends tend to leave their fans on, all pointing in this direction.)

I can't wait.