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If you believe in the premise that burning fossil fuels causes global warming then windmills will never supply all the energy we need unless you and most are willing to forgo the standard of living that you have been accustomed to. Windmills can be part of the mix however but it will be nearly impossible to convince private landowners to have them in their vista as the places where such machinery needs to be located is often near the location of vacation properties in the mountains and at the seashore. Such folks who have invested heavily in their property do not wish to see and hear windwills and you and I shouldn't blame them as they are indeed not a method to convert energy in an efficient way with respect to spacial characteristics, ie., it is not energy dense.

Nuclear power will have to be the future if you believe in global warming, but I reject the premise so for me and many thinkers we should do what the marketplace orders and that is continue on the present course until alternatives become financially attractive to investors and hence, consumers.