Gone with the Wind, Delaware's Offshore Wind Park

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  1. hb06

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    "The rich may be moaning about wind turbines ruining their coastal views on Cape Cod, but in Delaware, citizens are ardently battling politicians -- and the coal industry -- to build the nation's largest offshore wind park."

    "In the United States, wind represents less than 1 percent of all electric power generation, but that's still enough to power 2.9 million homes. The industry is growing fast -- wind-power production shot up 160 percent between 2000 and 2005, rising 27 percent just last year. For the past two years, wind has been the second-largest source of new power, after natural gas."

    "Today the most promising, and least known, source of wind power is that generated by offshore wind turbines. A newly released study by Stanford and University of Delaware researchers, including Kempton, says mid-Atlantic offshore wind could power the entire Eastern Seaboard, including transportation.."

    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/28/wind/
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(HBO6 @ Mar 28 2007, 06:26 PM) [snapback]413831[/snapback]</div>
    Screw the view. I'd rather breath clean air.
     
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    Re: Gone with the Wind, Delaware's Offshore Wind Park

    making a bit of progress???

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/science/earth/12wind.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
     
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    cape cod finally getting started:

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