They have these large wind mills in Somerset County where my pond is located. I can't see them from my property, but it is very "hilly" and mountainous terrain, so you'd have to be at the right angle.
The ones in Somerset County, PA. are not the massive grids of windmills; they are more sporadic. There may be a single line of them going along a small mountain range.
If they were to go up on your property, or adjacent to your property, Buzz, I don't think you'd walk out of your cabin everyday and curse the living sh#t out of them. You would eventually get used to it, and many times you would not even think about it when they are in plain site.
To me, it's seeming to boil down to two points:
A) If it is truly inevitable that they are going up in your area, you may as well make money from it.
B) Is it even possible to get a favorable legal deal from the wind power company?
Also, as a side note, Coal Burning Boilers represent the majority of fossil fuel for electricity in the USA. Natural Gas burning boilers are too expensive to be the mainstays for power companies with the price of natural gas. However, states like California have stupidly banned coal burning in their state. Very few boilers burn oil. Mostly, gas burners have the capacity to burn oil only so the boiler owner can tell the gas company to cram it if they try to stick it to them on gas pricing.
