[thackney]

[MeshugeMikey]

there goes the Gull Population,..and the Terns...and who know such other sort of birds

[thackney]

More info:

Commercial Wind Leasing Offshore Massachusetts
http://www.boem.gov/Commercial-Wind-Leasing-Offshore-Massachusetts/

[Jim Robinson]

Lots of windbags hail from Massachusetts.

[Uncle Miltie]

Feds announce largest-ever competitive lease sale for offshore wind oil

Made it useful.

[steve8714]

Breaking wind news!

[CivilWarBrewing]

How does interfering with wind patterns affect climate change? I guess it doesn’t matter.

[mowowie]

This is just great, my elec bill here is slated to rise 39% this year supposedly due to poor access to natural gas and the original Cape Wind numbers were another 40% or so. this will now cause it to double or triple in time.
I’m already paying close to 20 cents per kilowatt hour.
ARGH!!

[mowowie]

Looks like Ogruber has some more paying back to do...

[mountainlion]

Billy’ Carters brother Jimmy put huge wind farms into business with huge subsidies. When the wind mills broke down and the subsidies ran out the windmills became junk on the horizon.

[Joe Boucher]

teddy the killer Kennedy pleaded that this not be done.
Up yours teddy, so sayeth obammy.

[Nachoman]

I can’t think of a better place for this except for San Francisco Bay.

[Torquay]

I smell a SOLYNDRA scam taking shape.

How many want to bet that some of the "competitive" bidder "developers" are connected somehow to crooks at the fed?

These connected "crook" developers will use our federal tax dollars after winning said bid to launder money back to the very same crooks in the fed via campaign donations? Of course before filing bankruptcy!

[taildragger]

Yet they will not Frack the Formation in Western-Mass and Connecticut, even though the field is supposedly immature ( paging Harold Vinegar...)

And the locals finally gave a go ahead to a Bio-Mass Plant in Palmer, but the Folks in Springfield don't want it. And to top it off, I don't think they extra gas pipeline needed in Mass. is going anywhere and I read in the Greenfield Area the Gas Company will not take new Customers because of a limited infrastructure.

They have "Nimby'd" themselves into a box, I have gobs of family their, and their energy picture doesn't look pretty and it is in many ways their politician's and their green energy fixation that is at fault.

[exit82]

Offshore wind is expensive and has never made money, even in Europe.

The maintenance is a nightmare.

We tried this off the coast of DE in one the most consistently windy spots on the planet 7 miles offshore.

The numbers did not work.

Also, without a way to store the energy to release it to the grid on a steady basis, the vagaries of output play havoc on the grid operators.

You still need back-up power sources.

[clearcarbon]

Could be a bonanza for scrap metal pirates.