Comments on: Cape Wind: NIMBY vs. The Bottom Line

By: 9 Years & Millions of Lobbying Bucks Later, Cape Wind Gets Federal OK

9 Years & Millions of Lobbying Bucks Later, Cape Wind Gets Federal OK — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:27:05 +0000

[...] energy, while critics have decried the project’s potential to spoil wildlife and views (best enjoyed from the stomping grounds of New England’s affluent elite), and desecrate tribal burial [...]

By: Picking the Sweet Spot for Offshore Wind

Picking the Sweet Spot for Offshore Wind — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:31:36 +0000

[...] the location will get stronger gusts, the resistance to the higher price tag could drop (although Sen. Ted Kennedy still might not like the way it looks). [...]

By: Rhode Island Could Get North America’s First Offshore Wind Farm « Earth2Tech

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:13 +0000

[...] repeated resistance in the U.S., either due to cost, or, in the case of Cape Wind in Massachusetts, vocal opposition to turbines from prominent residents, who fear that such development could ruin their ocean [...]

By: Offshore Wind Heading Inland to the Great Lakes?

Offshore Wind Heading Inland to the Great Lakes? — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:35:07 +0000

[...] megawatts of energy. But if the progress of offshore wind projects in Rhode Island, New Jersey and Massachusetts is any indication, it will be years before any turbines start spinning up on the Great [...]

By: RI Picks Deepwater Wind to Build Offshore Farm « Earth2Tech

RI Picks Deepwater Wind to Build Offshore Farm « Earth2Tech — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:58:54 +0000

[...] of development, but no turbines have been put in the water yet. The Minerals Management Service is expected to release a final environmental analysis of the Cape Wind project by the end of the year, which has met heavy resistance. Farther south, the Long Island Power [...]

By: San Francisco Scouts Urban Wind « Earth2Tech

San Francisco Scouts Urban Wind « Earth2Tech — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:53:50 +0000

[...] Newsom said he became interested in wind power while pushing for tidal power under the Golden Gate Bridge, saying the tidal turbines are simply submarine wind turbines. He added that the Public Utility Commission (PUC), who has been studying tidal as well as wave energy off the coasts of San Francisco, is now actively investigating offshore wind turbines as well, the ultimate in NIMBY eco-phobia. [...]

By: Floating the Idea of Offshore Wind « Earth2Tech

Floating the Idea of Offshore Wind « Earth2Tech — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:01:01 +0000

[...] 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 am in Startups Taking wind turbines out on the high seas is an expensive and controversial proposition. A new report from Emerging Energy Research says the cost of anchoring and constructing [...]

By: Web

Web — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:42:29 +0000

Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.

By: Craig Rubens

Craig Rubens — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:56:47 +0000

Re: Tom Anderson:

Thanks, you're absolutely right. LIPA gave a "thumbs down" to a 40 turbine installation off of Jones Beach, not in the Sound.

However, now it looks like another proposal for an offshore wind far farther off of Jones Beach has been put forward. Read all about it.

By: Tom Andersen

Tom Andersen — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:13:53 +0000

I didn't see the Wall Street Journal article you referred to but there's never been a wind farm proposed for Long Island Sound. LIPA, I believe, proposed one for off Jones Beach but that's the Atlantic, not the Sound.

The Sound on the other had is being proposed for a big LNG terminal, halfway between New York and Connecticut. It's a bad proposal, for a host of reasons, but the feds released a FEIS last week that managed to find it owuld have not much of an impact on the Sound, which of course nodoby really believes.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:15:36 +0000

Ehrra , ther's a damn propeller invasion on the ahh horizon. It's not funny. Ehrra , whez my scatch?

By: 42Cliff

42Cliff — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:45:43 +0000

'doh - noscript didn't know that was the daily show clip .. haha@me.

By: 42Cliff

42Cliff — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:37:58 +0000

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=91140
heres the link .. go on, laugh at the morons!!

By: 42Cliff

42Cliff — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:35:02 +0000

the daily show did a hilarious spot on these nimby morons on the cape