I'm very much in favour of them both as providers of renewable energy which should, in the long term, be cheap power and as potential icons of a period that is likely to change the world as much as the industrial revolution did.
Here in Kerry there are a number of wind farms. Two, on the Stacks Mountains, are visible from my home and I've seen them in Europe and the US - the Tehachapi Wind Farm on the edge of the desert near Mojave provides a particularly stunning vista.
Each unit is a masterpiece of simple but stunning form and, either taken individually or en masse, are unmissable.
There are those who say they deface the countryside or seascape - if they do, they do it in a way any other structure from the Eiffel Tower to Stonehenge defaces the landscape by simply being placed there by man instead of nature.
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