Could Industrial Wind Ruin Vermont?

[johnd83]

16. I think what is lost here is that any form of energy production results in something undesirable

The law of entropy basically says that when you convert energy it results in something undesirable. Of course it is far more complicated than that, but the point is that any form of energy production has significant drawbacks. We just don't know what the drawbacks of wind and solar are yet because they haven't been deployed on a wide scale. The automobile was considered a clean device because it didn't leave piles of manure all over major cities. In time, we know it causes a lot of damage. I worry that a lot of "clean energy" advocates overlook the potential downsides of the technology. I am not saying that fossil fuels are any better, I am just very dubious about how well we have thought out the long term impact of removing several dozen terawatt hours from the environment.