RSG
OBS Chief
"Around the world" is not the United States (aside from pockets like the SF Bay Area). Among tree-huggers, the biggest complaint about wind turbines is bird kills and other wildlife impact. Among neighbors of wind farms, it's new transmission lines that are needed to transmit the power from the site of production to the nearest electrical grid. It's now almost impossible to build new cellular telephone antenna towers without a plan to hide or disguise them, even in smaller communities.Looking around the world, based on what I am seeing, I cannot help but come to the inevitable conclusion that you are living in your own fantasylandAs for the power debate, the days of new catenary wire being strung where it has never existed before are over.
In other countries with strong central planning, it's probably relatively easy to string new wires or infrastructure; that is not the case in the United States, particularly the interior West. A regional rail line (sans catenary power) was eventually derailed after a number of years due to mounting opposition to the proposal, from a broad number of interests across several states. That is only one reason why coast-to-coast HSR in the US will not come to pass.