Here is another tidbit for those that think they are super awesome, while seeing them a handful of times a year.
According to the midamerican energy website there are 3400 wind turbines in Iowa that produce 7500 megawatts of energy a year. Rough math, each turbine produces 2.2 megawatts. Again MAE website, each single family home uses 861 kw of energy a month. So each of those turbines can power my one home for 2.5 months. You would need 5 for my 1 home and that doesn't account for thr energy it takes to produce the damn things and put them up, and they don't have an endless life.
That's why I say I'm OK with nuclear, you could have 1 place that powered the entire stste not 5 turbines per home. They are incredibly inefficient and frankly if it were nor for huge subsidies by thr government they never would have made it off the ground, subsidies the government doesn't care if it loses money on because we the tax payer foot the bill.