Job posting:
One or several individuals to burn down rich, liberal homes on Nantucket to make way for a wind farm that will prevent Global Warming, which of course would bury Nantucket in 100 feet of sea water.
Apply to:
www.hypocrites.org
How about something with a smaller footprint, like a nuclear plant?
They served beans before the 'Wind Farm' meeting?
This is certainly "Breaking Wind" news.
I hope they build those wind farms on the cape now. Even if they don't work I still hope they build them.
Get rid of all that hot air coming from the Kennedy compound and the wind farm people won't have a reason to build there......
Maybe they could put them in hangars underground, so they wouldn't appear so "ugly"...
I've seen wind bags, and they are not pretty......
What hypocrites. They don't want fossil fuel; they don't want nuclear; they don't want liquefied natural gas tankers pulling into their harbors. They're probably all Voluntary Human Extinctionists, and I think they should Go First.
NIMBY RINO.
Yeah, like I really believe what Massachusetts POLS say about anything. They really did a great job on the BIG DIG.
Citizens Protest Windmills: "Scar Landscape", Tell King.
1 Windmill generates 1 to 3 megawatts (depending on the wind).
1 Reactor generates 1000 megawatts (they vary: Link).
1000 Windmills = 1 Reactor (most plants have several reactors)
The Cape Wind project is as follows: "The wind park will consist of 130 wind turbines, with a total maximum output of 420 megawatts." Cape Wind Link
A spit in the bucket IMHO. Not worth the damage to the fishing industry, tourism industry, and bird migration.
Unless we pave the earth in windfarms...
So he would rather build them where it's not very windy rather than in a place where you can pretty much guarantee a steady wind (which is why the sailing set likes it there). He's not very bright is he? A wind farm is not like any other power plant in that it can be built anywhere, it has to be built where there is a lot of wind -- which usually means on mountain tops, the edges of deserts, or on the coast. And the last time I looked there were not many mountains or deserts in Massachusetts.
Liberals with cash by the bucket
they said "alternative power" wasn't hard,
just NOT IN MY BACK YARD!
as for the clean windpower offshore, it went nowhere
When Bush announced his energy policy during his first term, a cartoonist depicted a suburban landscape in which every home had an oil rig in its back yard. It seems that the scenario of a landscape littered with mini-powerplants is more likely with the "green" technology proposed by the wind-power advocates. These wind-farms require dozens and even hundreds of power generators spread over a large area.
Ping.
What a stunning grasp of the obvious on the part of AG Reilly.
If the people in the Northeast want an inexpensive steady source of electricity, they should support an opening of the second reactor building at Seabrook in NH. The owners had the second containment building all built, but decided not to bring it online because it took them almost 5 years to get the first one online because of all the rabid anti-nuke folks here in the Northeast.