I remember having read about some issues with lots of birds getting killed by turbines... but I don't remember the context, nor numbers, however the point remains that I'd heard about it being an issue. But drone may have a point, I'll need to look into that.

Tribesman, I wasn't aware of any other environmental impact of wind farms... leaving aside the aesthetic aspect (which isn't environmental impact), what other problems are there?
How/why is agriculture affected ?
As for power lines, well, don't we have that _anyway_, for transporting electricity ? Regardless of what method to generate it we'd be using, we'd still need the lines to transport it to the consumer, so I don't quite understand the argument...

I'm thinking right now of a trip to Cali, where I've seen a few hundred of wind turbines on hills, areas which could have definitely not been used for any agricultural or real estate development - it was just arid, stony, hills. I remember thinking that was a pretty damn good way to use that land, which would otherwise have gone unused, like I said.