Check out this new wind turbine tech: Wind power without a turbine or any blades at all. Instead a long shaft is designed to vibrate in the wind, the vibration is used to induce an electric field using magnets.
It generates 30% less energy but has many other important benefits, including not killing 1300 birds. Which is what happened in one small town.
http://www.sciencealert.com/spanish-researchers-are-developing-bladeless-wind-turbines