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 While I agree, to be fair, most new installs are far enough off the coast you can’t (materially) see them with the naked eye. 
 I hope you're right.  
 The biggest part of the intermittent low density energy scam, to me anyway, is not the dead birds, not the noise and visual pollution, not the lack of claimed benefits to the environment - it is that where these sources are added to the grid, electricity prices increase significantly. 

These means businesses shutting down or relocating, and families not being able to pay their electric bills (energy poverty). 

What happens is that the intermittent energy sources cannot replace on demand reliable energy generation in e.g. coal and nat gas, as it is not acceptable in the developed world to have electricity for an average of 8 hours per day.

Therefore electric prices increase due to central planner diktat and subsidies of unreliable low density energy sources. 

That’s great if you’re building these, or if you’re the bureaucrat regulating this into existence. It’s terrible for anyone else.