My husband and I took a cross-country trip last year, going through the relatively unbeaten path through Idaho, Utah, Kansas. We were struck at how the country landscape has been ruined with windmills. They are everywhere, everywhere, everywhere and needless to say, major eyesores. I can only imagine the long-term maintenance costs must be astronomical.
I loathe windmills now, and even the primitives would too, if they got their heads out of their little urban NIMBY bubbles.