Wind Turbines too ugly for NC?

Driving back from Joshua Tree National Park last spring we drove by a wind farm near Palm Desert, Calif. It was beautiful. Snow-capped mountains behind dozens of huge windmills. I don't understand the aesthetics argument against windmills. I'd rather have windmills than coal-fired power plants or nuclear power plants nearby.

I appreciate...no, I LOVE the idea of renewable energy. In my opinion, wind power is right up there with solar energy, but there are definitely drawbacks to it, such as:
1) cost and materials required to produce the turbines
2) harm/population decline of birds and bats
3) wind turbine syndrome suffered by local residents
4) and YES, they do mar the natural beauty of the landscape!!
(But then again, so do power lines.) Until we figure out how to make turbines them invisible (without inadvertently murdering all flying creatures), I think that they are a necessary "evil" that will evolve over time with improved technology and better design applications. Way WAYYYY better than coal!

I agree with Justine, I like wind turbines and in fact I like them so much that I have one in my back yard!
Contrary to popular myth wind turbines are NOT responsible for population decline in birds or bats - obviously they should not be sited in the way of known migration paths and it is important that a genuine environmental impact study is undertaken.
In Carolina they could still site turbines - they don't have to go on the ridge-line of mountains, I am sure there is a prevailing wind on one side of the mountains or the other...
To say that they are too ugly - that's just plain silly!