As I drove back from downtown this afternoon I found myself stopped in traffic and gazing directly at a cell tower. I thought, what is all the fuss about beautiful wind turbines? These cell towers are hideous. Nobody asked me if I wanted them in my sight, and they seemed to go up far and wide with nary a word of aesthetic discussion. No one objects because they are on their phone checking baseball stats. I'd rather have been looking at a wind turbine with all its beautiful movement. Where does this NIMBY movement around wind towers come from, or is it just fabricated by energy providers who are loathe to make the change to renewables? It reminds me of TV antennae in our neighborhood when I was a child – “Look those people have TV”, we would say. If we had wind turbines in Northeast Ohio, people might say, “Look those people have intelligence.”