Alternative Energy Hailed as a Megatrend, Disrupting World Order In the United States, the landscape is collecting a kind of 21 st-century raiment. Wind farms, solar farms, and just stray windmills and solar panels on roofs are signaling something big and different. When they were making “Tom Jones” in 1963, the very funny film based on the Henry Fielding classic, the big problem was finding English villages which dated from the 18 th century and still looked it. The filmmakers found plenty of appropriate villages, but all the skylines were despoiled with television aerials. No filmmaker today can avoid windmills and solar panels, and computer graphics will have to come to the rescue for period dramas.