The world lived at a slower pace back then, but the clipper=ship hull moved quickly, it carried less, so it's cargo was more in demand and time sensitive. The point is, we moved great weight, and used more hands on equipment. wind generation linked with solar requires more hands on, in as much that it requires constant and frequent maintenance and operational monitoring. Build wind generation plants that double as job opportunity, heck we could build fences around it and use prison inmate labor. Put them out in the wind-swept deserts, or offshore ships, platforms, and islands. How about a dynamo driven off a wound spring and speed governor, the old victrollers worked fine for years,and still work that played our old 78's Imagine a building sized one, all wound by hand, a real work-out that would all but eliminate obesity of our society. We used to grind cane the same way