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by kortilla 1166 days ago
Not if solar keeps improving or we get the fabled affordable nuclear.
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Solar and wind peak at different times, and windmills don't compete with farmland. They're complementary.

(Sometimes farmers do complain about windmills - that's because farmers are a kind of landlord and their actual problem is that it's harder to sell the land with a windmill on it.)