Most projects were fairly small (1-5 turbines) and the investment was made by local cooperatives, or individual investors using the tax breaks initially proided by government.

It only fairly recently in Europe that projects have become larger (in the 20-100MEUR range) and mostly a business for professional developers, financial investors or utilities. (The US, with lots more room, has been mostly a large-scale industry all along).

But small projects are still happening, and are being financed by smaller banks which may be less sensitive to the global credit turmoil.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes