The Storm Lake farm was built by Enron Wind Corp., whose subsidiary, Zond, employs highly skilled American factory workers at their factory in California. The Spirit Lake school district plays up the educational value of their turbine. The aerospace and electrical engineers and meteorologists could all play with turbines. You could pay meteorology students to do site studies. I'd personally rather get paid to drive around checking anemometers than scrub plates at food disservice.
Wind turbines are also much more aesthetically pleasing than a coal burning plant.
I think it would be cool to have one on campus. Zond has made several technological advances. The turbines are designed to last at least 30 years, able to withstand 100 mph winds as a once a year event, and 131 mph winds as a once in a 50 year event. They produce power at a constant frequency despite the variable speed of the turbine, and change the pitch of the blade at different wind speeds to reduce torque on the drive train. These advances should be proof to doubters in Congress that a dedicated effort to alternative power leads to technological advances and greater feasibility.