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Complicated question for me, Buzz, long answer coming.

Simplified as much as possible, if the appearance and noise (I've no idea about that - maybe they creak constantly ) didn't bother me, the windmills wouldn't. I reserve the right to complain long and loud while trying to negotiate land prices down before buying.

Now the complicated part - what's a nuisance? The cell phone tower that didn't go up on my place went up catty-cornered across the road. I can see the top 1/2 of it or so over our horse barn from my house. It doesn't bother me one whit.

But the house closest to it (not belonging to the lease money collector) is having kittens, puppies, and cows about it - screaming in the paper, calling all the neighbors, complaining to state politicians. Partially this may be an ex-in-law jealousy problem (the couple in the "offended" house went so far as having the natural gas line crossing their property to the "offending" house, put in without a deeded right-of-way, forcibly removed - shutting off the heat last Winter in the house their niece and nephew live in. And some of us think OUR families may be disfunctional!)

But all the time this couple is screaming about a cell tower, my wife and I have noted that they have a high-tension power line (the same one on my place) running up their driveway and right past their house that they don't seem to notice. It was there when they built their house.

I think "nuisance" is mostly "not used to it" in this context. How often have you seen an attractive telephone pole? But have you ever been bothered to the point of complaint, or do you just accept them because they've "always" been there?

I think if wind power really takes off (as it should although not necessarily will, IMHO), a windfarm next door will be no more annoying to most people than a telephone pole in your front yard. Most of us won't much notice or care.