Traversing the Landscape deals with renewables’ second major drawback: the land sprawl caused by the dilute distribution of wind and solar energy. The author’s trip examines where wind and solar farms bunch around a shuttered coal plants where high voltage lines terminate. Land requirements are huge, up to 300 times as much as a nuclear reactor producing the same power. Residents object to the eyesore created by gigantic wind turbines, particularly their blinking red lights making the nighttime horizon resemble an airport runway. The author notes the growing resistance in rural areas and wonders how city proponents of renewables would react to wind turbines near their homes.