Average Lifetime of Danish Wind Turbines, as of February 2018.

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3. To do nothing is better?

There will always be the well meaning naysayers and doom and gloom crackpots trying to forestall change, but consumers, entrepreneurs, and developers won't be denied. Who knows what advances we will see a decade from now. Look at any start up industry that evolved from scratch, like computers, or the auto industry, they took decades to achieve acceptance and become prosperous since the first warehouse-sized computer and the horseless carriage.

I live a few miles away from the Mojave Wind Farm, the third largest onshore project in the world and the largest wind farm in the US. I can see them from my house and since they first went up in the 70s, the turbines keep evolving, getting more efficient with each new generation. In the opposite direction is a huge solar array, and they are continually expanding to meet demand.

We're still way behind the curve, but the alternative to wind and solar is not a viable option.