I live about 100KM from the foot of the Canadian Rocky mountains & we have hundreds of these wind turbines built along the foothills. If you want to talk about spoiling the view we have it in spades. There is a problem with them killing a lot of birds & bats that seem not to be able to avoid them & there is no answer to that problem yet. I am not sure what the answer is to our energy use but who would have thought 20 years ago that you would be able to walk into a car showroom & buy an electric car or that a Diesel car would win Lemans, what I see is that we all have to do our bit & stop waiting for someone else to do it for us. I predict that within 50 years we will be off grid & a lot smarter than we are now with our energy use. In our house in the past 18 months we have installed a high efficiency furnace( from 65% to 96% efficient) A new water heater also more efficient & 3 Lo/Flush toilets & I have just started,next thing on my list is much better windows. I have also increased the insulation in the attic to R40 from R20. In this city( Calgary)we get about 300 days of sunshine each year & it would seem to me that solar would be the way to go,yet you will see very little use of solar panels in use here. The photos are really nice you guys, thank you. Mick B.