I wonder who the ‘expert electrical engineers’ you know are, and happen to have discussed this with... hmm! 

It doesn't. I think it is a good idea (actually, I think every village needs a wind turbine located outside of it to generate power for that village). You only need one - not dozens, and they don't look so bad, as they're more distributed.

No, my point is why they would give us grants to do this if their objective is to steal our money. This is diametrically opposed to your 'the government is ripping us off' theory.

Here's one for the environmentalists: what effect does artificially slowing down the wind over large areas have on the atmosphere/weather systems/climate?

I think you mean in terms of a wind turbines slowing the wind as they extract the energy. I'm not an expert but I can tell you, I would imagine most people could. ZERO! The total area covered by turbines, even in the ideal energy generation scenario is microscopic compared to the surface area of the earth.

I suppose this is another attempt by you to srubbishe the barrel in search of any obscure and invalid reason not to save the planet. Most anti GW individuals are now regarded as internet con men oil company employees, or weirdo’s or just a bit thick, god knows what they'll think of you in a couple of years when even more research comes through.