Weighing Different Renewable Energy Options

I wonder how we can resolve the conundrum that while renewable energy can help resolve the world-wide accumulation of manmade global warming gases, few want wind farms near them. Most people like the idea of windmills added to our power grid, providing us with a non-polluting energy source--until it threatens their area. So, how can it happen? I don't remember anyone having a choice about a hydro-electric dam stopping up their river or a coal-burning power plant, which pollutes the air with particulates, too much carbon dioxide, and mercury. I don't remember community groups getting up in arms about a far more insidious form of energy--nuclear power.

But, it seems every time a community is faced with having a windmill farm near them, they get up in arms about how it will change the aesthetics of their landscape, or the blades falling off, or ice coming off, bird and bats kills, or the flicker effect, or the noise, or something. This is strange because residents near nuclear or coal-burning power plants have, in all probability, far graver health and environmental problems than those who live near a windmill. Moreover, in our