Wind Farm to Be Built Off Texas Coast

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/11/06 | AP

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[texgal]

I like this guy's spirit and guts.

Jerry Patterson apprehended a couple of bank robbers running from police with his handgun - back before we were required to have concealed carry permits. He was an elected state representative then.

You're right about him.

[MeanWestTexan]

Evolution at its finest.

[HostileTerritory]

Good for Texas! I wish my own damn state would follow.

Nantucket Sound is beautiful, but if you want to flip the light switch on and get results, you have to get the power from somewhere.

[texgal]

Should be interesting to find out!

[grapeape]

For tens of thousands of years Birds have been able to fly around things. Now all of a sudden they magically can't any more. Right....

I try not to be conspiritorial but the only people who can possibly benefit from America not moving to alternative energy is OPEC.

[MeanWestTexan]

They learn. It's intentional.

Earth Day is not on Lenin's birthday by accident. The entire movement was created to cripple the West from the inside. It continues after its creators have been stuffed and made tourist attractions in the Red Square mortuary and amusement park.

[Cobra64]

I wonder what the output will be when a hurricane blows through.

The turbine cores will start smokin'. LOL. And the libs will blame FEMA and W.

[Jedidah]

"all those migrant birds are crossing the border illegally. . ."

. . . and probably also carrying the flu! Good riddance.

[nikos1121]

You lost me... please rephrase your point.

[P-40]

I bet the fishing will be great around these man-made "reefs".

And plenty of sharks too...if sharks eat sliced-bird. If they do the sharks will be telling each other that "this is the greatest thing since sliced-bird."

[TexasCajun]

BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- 1030 AM CDT THU MAY 11 2006

...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...

.THIS AFTERNOON...NORTH WIND 25 TO 30 KNOTS DECREASING TO NORTHEAST 15 TO 20 KNOTS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. BAYS ROUGH TO OCCASIONALLY VERY ROUGH DECREASING TO CHOPPY TO OCCASIONALLY ROUGH LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. .TONIGHT.

It blows hard all the time, from all directions.
It'll turn around by tomorrow and blow 20-30 from the S/SE.

[demkicker]

In this case, I'm on the side of the environmentalists. This is a stooopid idea. The idiots just need to re-instate off-shore drilling, damnit!

[YouPosting2Me]

"In this case, I'm on the side of the environmentalists. This is a stooopid idea. The idiots just need to re-instate off-shore drilling, damnit!"

Put a wind turbine ON THE OIL PLATFORMS!!!... BRILLIANT!

[Minnesoootan]

I would like to see the Myth Busters take this one on,what exactly are the chances of a boid gettin whacked by a blade?....take a large boid,like a goose and randomly sling it through the path of the blades and see just how many passes it takes to get whacked...use a fake bird of course so as not PO PITA(pains in the a$$es)....bet they would end up calculated the timing just to GET a hit!!!

[demkicker]

Nantucket Sound is beautiful, but if you want to flip the light switch on and get results, you have to get the power from somewhere.

It's called reinstating offshore drilling! Putting a wind farm in a migratory bird flyway is asinine. And no, I'm not a enviro/wacko.

[P-40]

Yet they have no qualms about spoiling our landscape with this marginally effective energy crapola.

If they can make money on it, more power to them. :)

[demkicker]

The libs would stoke out, wouldn't they!

[Cobra64]

By PETA's arguments, these should have been made illegal years ago.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Just put big scarecrows or giant fake hawks (with glow in the dark red eyes!) on each turbine.