Former prime minister Tony Abbott has labelled wind farms "the dark Satanic Mills of the modern era" while dismissing a tongue-in-cheek campaign to install the turbines in his old Sydney electorate of Warringah.

A satirical online petition has called on independent MP Zali Steggall, who ousted Mr Abbott at the May election, to install wind farms along the foreshore of the northern beaches seat.

Former PM Tony Abbott at Manly Beach in his former electorate of Warringah during the election campaign. Credit:Janie Barrett

On Friday, 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones asked Mr Abbott: "How are they going with the wind turbines in your former electorate? Is Zali Steggall sticking them up there?"

"I think there's been a lot of wind but not too much action - and thank God, because the last thing we want is what I regard as the dark Satanic Mills of the modern era spoiling our landscape," Mr Abbott said.