Yes ST, I live on the outskirts of Bristol and just noticed two more large turbines going up in the industrial Avonmouth (docks and industrials estates near the river severn) area. There are now about 8 in this windy location on the banks of the severn catching the prevailing south westerly winds. Personally I think this is a perfect location for these as it is already industrial and they look quite majestic. This is completely different from the very green, rural, beautifull, unspoilt country side where so many of these are being located.

industrial agriculture

I have not come across that term before and find it conflicting. I would say industrial was grey and built up, agricuture was green and beautifull (apart from the odd muddy tractor and tin shed, but this adds to the country idyll)

Without wishing to start a townies/countries ruck, i would say that the 'countryside', or at least the vast majority of it that is farmed in some way, is an industrial area, albeit one that is easier in the eye than a steel mill or refinery*

this sometimes brings conflict, the landscape looks the way it does because of the way the land is worked. Any changes to working practices will change the landscape (for example the introduction of mechanization and the increase in field sizes.

very little of the uk landscape is untouched by human influence, in fact some of the most celebrated landscapes in the uk are a result of human interference.

wrt wind turbines i recently passed a windmill that was being restored, no body seemed to mind, in fact people seemed positive about it. Yet if it was a similar sized (small) wind turbine i, the middle of the view i suspect the reaction would have been different.

maybe that's the answer, make the turbines look like ye olde mills :-)

*I once drove past a refinery on the east coast of NZ at night, and it looked spectacular, so beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder

Give our current need for energy I'd go with:

5 x height from houses (unless householders agree)
properties 5x height to 10x height away offered an 'incentive'
not in a national park.

Pylons tend to be in valleys (though not exclusively). They do this so they are not exposed to high winds. Though the capacity is increased when the windspeed rises up, which can be useful for when siting turbines.

Cant these wind turbines be made out of a transparent material like, like glass?

A non-reflective transparent material.

Wind turbine made from solar panels, cool.

Rather moving away from the point of suitable locations for wind turbines.

Would a hill top be an exceptional landscape.
Carne Brea near me has a stone monument on it, and a small castle, not far from it is a very tall (500 foot) radio mast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redruth_transmitting_station), but no one is allowed to build anything up there.
One of the highest places around here, has Camborne and Redruth to either side of it, as well as Pool Industrial estate, the remains of South Crofty tin mine.
From up there you can see the old RAF base with the radar dome, St. Ives, Penzance, bits of the Lizard Peninsular and Penryn (I think). So from there you can see about 50 turbines, and a rough old industrial estate.
But no turbine will be allowed to be built there. Seems strange, especially as it is often misty (hence the lights on the radio mast).

I'm currently looking into the history of TAN8 and it is shocking the poor job that Arup made of it. But also seeing the small amount they were paid for it (about £100k - they must have seen it as a 'loss leader' for all the LPA follow-on work they got) I'm not too surprised.