I've driven through quite a few in California (I thought they were central or northern California though) and also seen the windmills in Nederland. While the windfarms are nothing compared to windmills, they certainly are not a visual pollution... Rather I thought them interesting (and much less of an eyesore than the nuclear plants) I live within an hour of a nuclear power plant here and I was within 10 miles of one when I lived in Schweinfurt, Germany.

>Terry,
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>Hey man, I became a nuclear engineer because end-to-end it's the most environmentally fiendly way to create electrical energy. We have several windfarms out in West Texas. I've driven through them and the ones in Southern California. Lots of people complain about the "visual pollution" they are on the landscape.
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>>No, I wasn't referring to the fat intake - rather the destruction of the rainforest to create cattle pasture to grow hamburgers on (let alone the fact that these cattle then produde methane). As for aviation polution (I wasn't even thinking about O3 depletion), there's a move afoot in UK to greatly increase the number of wind farms, to attempt to comply with Kyoto (you guys wouldn't know anything about that, of course, thanks to "W" :-) but I read recently that even with them it would only save less CO2 emmissions than 1 Jumbo Jet produces in less than 6 months.
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>>We're all doomed, man - we're doomed!