I wrote about all the huffing and puffing by the "Alliance to Save Nantucket Sound" in my recent look at the great book, Cape Wind. One of their arguments is that the windfarm will destroy the view. Here's the thing: I am among a number of folks who think the view of offshore (or onshore) windfarms is fairly magnificent. I love the picture of the EU Environment Minister, Stavros Dimas, here.
But here's a really terrific picture. A tall ship gathering for a race from Liverpool (the 2008 European City of Culture) to Norway juxtaposed on the horizon with the Burbo Bank wind farm.
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Meanwhile, Texas is looking at a massive transmission infrastructure upgrade to enable wind farms inWest Texas to power much of Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. The "NY Times" has a great story today, Texas Approves a $4.93 Billion Wind-Power Project. I mentioned the astonishing TXU buyout that killed eight coal-fired power plants in Texas with the flourishing of a pen here (with a link to a "Frontline" segment), and highly recommend the documentary Fighting Goliath. I also wrote here recently about "The Pickens Plan" to provide more windpower to Texas and the rest of the country. The new lines approved by Texas " can handle 18,500 megawatts of power, enough for 3.7 million homes on a hot day when air-conditioners are running."
I wrote about The Crime of Mountaintop Removal Mining, and Burning the Future, another terrific documentary, in May. Well it appears that Appalachian Residents Have Found the Antidote to Coal according to the Pacific News Service. You guessed it! Wind. 440 MW. See more information at Coal River Wind.
"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind."
