By the time my 3 year old daughter turns 20 years old, i hope the migration to power that's generated by wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy is analogous to the migration from land based phones to iPhones that we've experienced over the past 15 or so years.

And you will put up with huge wind power generators every other mile all around the entire coastline of Britain? And the fact that even with all that wind power capability the government admits that there must be real power generators that don't realy on wind if you want electricty all the time?

I don't believe that a) the eco-nauts in Britain will allow even one wind turbine to be built that blocks any person's view and b) that there will be any money left to build them after the government gets done spending 45% of the entire GDP of the country.

off shore

The trade off of having one's view affected in order to shift to renewable, clean, non Mid-East based oil for our power seems like a no brainer.

No one has even begun to tap the jetstream yet.

"If we were able to tap 1% of the wind energy at high altitude, that would be enough to supply all the world's energy needs," says David Shepard, president of renewable energy startup Sky WindPower, in Coronado, California.

http://www.magenn.com/

Land based wind energy will be a transitional source. Small price to pay for energy independence.

off shore

Off shore within sight from land (as I read it/see it).

Islands, oil rigs, gas platforms,ships, yachts, sharks, monsters from the deep.... there are many blots on the seascape! Several windfarms off shore west of the mersey's homely swell, quite pretty i think as i sit watching all the ships come in.

totally agree abailart. I am totally astonished by people's aversion to wind power based on its aesthetic implications.