re: What must it be like to grow up surrounded by a wind farm in the Midwest?

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You know when you are defeated when you resort to just making shite up.

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I note that you deleted the question about the carbon footprint of these ‘green’ devices.

You're a weird dude, I find them relaxing to look at

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Do they just sit basically idle during the summer when it’s 100 degrees on the plains ?

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Tell everyone youve never left home without saying it.

We won't let them put one on our ground because we know the people who live around our property. I don't care for them either.

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Nuclear is far and away the greenest energy source.

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I am very much for increased nuclear but it is only the greenest source until it isn't.

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They kill untold number of birds

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At present, buildings with glass windows kill roughly 2,000 times as many birds as wind turbines in the US. If we ran the country on 100% wind power, they would kill a lot more birds than they do now but still 100 times more would die smashing into windows. And 50 times more would still die being hit by cars. And cats would still kill more birds than everything else put together, by a lot.

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And what is the carbon footprint really considering manufacture, transportation, and maintenance?

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Including all that, roughly 50 times less emissions per kWh lifetime vs a natural gas plant. And the energy is cheaper, too.

There aren't a lot of windless days out in the middle of the prairie - I grew up there and the wind was constantly blowing

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Your mind never gets a time to relax looking out on the horizon because there is always visual disturbance.

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You must live in the middle of nowhere if you’re used to this

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the lubricant's used on them are highly toxic and ruin the ground if it leaks..

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That's funny, the lubricants they use offshore you can basically drink.

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.plus the sound they make causes cancer

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Jesus, some people will literally believe anything.

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Tidal energy is very predictable too, and pretty much out of everyone's sight. It's free energy once you're up and running, and much more efficient than wind and solar. No one even talks about it...huh.

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imagine that. Gonna go out on a limb and say it’s because it’s free... big energy lobbyists just as bad as big pharma with all the tech they kill

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Tidal, wind, solar... all of these produce "free" energy because the "fuel" inputs are free. And as technology improves, the initial capital and ongoing maintenance costs will also continue to fall, making the energy "free"-er. Fossil fuel energy sources can't compete long-term, because the fuel can never be free and will always be subject to global market forces.