Smallificated Wind Power

Interested in wind-generated electric power, but concerned, for various reasons, about giant, whirling propellers? This article from CNET News.com discusses several companies that are taking a different, distributed approach:

Placing a 300-foot high turbine in downtown San Francisco is problematic. But distributed, or on-site, electricity generation systems can help customers get around the transmission bottlenecks and reliability problems of the wholesale electricity grid, Day said.

The idea is to place a network of much smaller wind turbines on rooftops in urban areas.

But why not extend that idea to individual homes? And what about adding photo-electric solar panels to the home mini-grid. Then instead of relying solely on large-scale power plants, we could generate cleaner, greener power through a distributed network of power-generating widgets.