To add to that, conservatives are usually much more religious. So I think a big part of the queastion boils down to faith vs evidence. They don't believe in wind power, because nobody on their side told them to, so they fight it.

Yes, but I think this is an aspect where the European wingnuts and the US wingnuts differ. The religious angle is much less pronounced over here. There are of course crazy religious conservatives that make an extrimist religion their whole identity. But there is no religious mainstream that would back this and if there is it is not paneuropean but a local phenomenon.

This is certainly not the case in the US, where the right is consolidated to an unnatural degree.