A Mighty Wind

DoraLives writes "Fascinating New York Times piece regarding a proposed wind farm for Nantucket Sound. Suddenly, all the environmentally friendly locals are going ballistic over the prospects of seeing an 'industrial energy complex' in their backyard. Walter Cronkite decries it, as do many other local checkbook environmentalists. Greenpeace says 'Jim Gordon (the developer) is the real thing, there aren't many entrepreneurs out there willing to take risks to clean up the environment.' Who's right?"

Comments

Re:NIMBY

[Master Bait]

A blighted landscape vs. air polution? Imagine how fucked up the outside would look if solar panels produced all our electricity, let alone wind machines or geothermal of biomass production.

The world's real problem is overpopulation of human beings. Alternative energy projects are a band-aide hiding the ultimate challenge for humanity, which is how to reduce the population.

Re:NIMBY FACTOR

[nomadic]

This is just unbeleivable! Nantucket island is filled with greener than thou environmentalists.

Really? You know everyone on Nantucket Island? They're ALL environmentalists? All of them? Amazing. It's a fair sized town you know, I'm impressed that you know everyone there, and know both their a) environmental views, and b) stance on this specific project.