But Don't Worry...

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk After the eight turbines were installed in the notoriously windy Penghu archipelago in the Taiwan Strait, a neighbouring farmer reported that his goats had started dying, Council of Agriculture inspection official Lu Ming-tseng said. "If noise at night can keep people awake, then it could also keep the goats awake, and when the wind kicks up it makes a louder noise," Lu said.

... there'll be no problem if we carpet the Midwest with wind turbines -- which is what we'd have to do to have any prayer of them making a significant contribution to our energy needs.