Yeah, you are probably correct. My biggest concern on the windproject I have looked at was with the people developing the wind farms.
I had a huge argument with a developer over what was an "all weather road." He thought it was something you made with an I-beam that you dragged behind a truck. I explained that since Roman times a "road" was crowned for drainage, had balast and a top material. The idea of bringing in crushed rock and crowning the road was foreign to this guy.
Another experience was that windy areas are usually dry and so are subject to wildfires. Well, I wanted to have some fire breaks in the wind farm design and use some special overhead power fuses to reduce the chance of sparks and fires. The developer thought this was crazy talk.
Yep, it does seem to be some of the people. Seriously, wind power in the right location with the right developer can be a very good resource. There are too many builders who have no idea what they are doing that have tried to develop wind resources. You are right that noise isn't a real problem for most new technologies. Most of the "real objections" are just a smokescreen for not wanting something built, with the exception of economics. Economics is the hard reality of wind farm development.
Locations are definitely important. I hear that N. Dakota is the Saudi Arabia of wind yet there is only a single windmill there. They also have more electricity than they need and they have a lot of raptors which will cause the bird societies to get involved. We certainly don't want to be killing too many eagles and hawks.
The economics seems to work very well with the 1.7 cent PTC. As the technology continues to bring the prices down I would either expect wind to develop faster than the available money from the PTC or the PTC will have to start shrinking to less than 1.7 cents per kwhr.
You are right about the arguments against wind. They are starting to sound very contrived and come from people who have some other issues of their own to get over.