If only Big Wind were the green santa they say it is. Those turbines are not going to just float out there. There is environmental impact when you pile drive industrial scale machinery into undisturbed ocean bottom. There will be miles of high voltage cable from each turbine. And though wind is supposedly "clean" they need power from traditional power plants to run. Grid goes down, the stop producing electricity. It's the only renewable energy option that keeps us reliant on coal burning plants or other thermal plants. The bright red-herring of "NIMBY-ism" keeps thinking people from looking into the serious environmental impacts utility scale wind projects will have. The ruined view is the least of concerns, but it's always cited as the main reason for opposition to Big Wind. There is a BIG STORY here that you're ignoring. What happened to investigative journalism?