The Dutch discover windmills are most useful as tourist icons.

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"The Netherlands annual consumption is about 108,200,000 MWh/yr. It has about 2,000 onshore and offshore wind turbines. Installed capacity of wind turbines has been stagnant for the past 3 years. It was 2225, 2229, and 2237 MW at the end of 2008, 2009 and 2010, respectively.

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Expanding wind power to meet renewables targets meant adding at least another thousand 3 MW, 400-ft tall wind turbines to the Dutch landscape. The Dutch people found that to be an unacceptable intrusion into their lives.

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As a result, nuclear power became less controversial and is again viewed as one of many possibilities to reduce CO2 emissions and increase national energy self-reliance."

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