text: "Besides being wildly expensive (so heavily subsidised by compulsory levies that they cost six times more than coal energy) they are also:  shortlived (because it's hard to erect such large mechanical structures in such hostile terrain); subject to declining efficiency; they kill an average 110-330 birds per turbine per year; they blight the view from the coast; they disrupt shipping; they kill whales and other marine life; they drive up energy prices; they increase fuel poverty; they enrich rent-seekers; they require vast pylons to carry their costly, intermittent energy from the sea across the land.  Happily, all these disadvantages have been nullified by this glorious news, as recounted in Christian Science Monitor: [...]"