I personally have always thought that wind generation of electricity is an example of a reverse economy of scale. It makes a certain amount of sense for — say — a single household off the power grid because of distance or other isolating circumstances, but when one tries to scale it up to a major contributor to the power network, it fails.
Smaller installations, designed and built of recyclable, modular parts, generating electricity for single farms or small communities might be more viable. Especially if they had the ability to sell any surplus power they generated to the regional or national grid, and buy power from that source when their wind generation was inadequate.
Wind and solar power work great for sailboats and clotheslines.