Cape Wind Ready To Bring First Offshore Wind Farm

An anonymous reader writes "The Cape Wind Project, a wind farm of 130 turbines to be built in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Cape Cod, can finally move forward as they have been given a green light by the US Minerals Management service. Leaders from labor, civic, and environmental groups across Massachusetts and the country hailed the release of the report, as it is the final federal environmental report needed for the long delayed and much scrutinized project to finally move forward. When completed, Cape Wind will be capable of supplying up to 420 megawatts of electricity, potentially offsetting as much as a million tons of carbon emissions and saving more than 100 million gallons of oil every year. But the environment wont be the sole beneficiary of Cape Wind. It will likely be a boon to out of work Massachusetts residents, as well, given that as many as 1,000 green jobs could be brought to the Bay State in addition to a significant supply of clean, renewable energy."

Comments

Re:Two major roadblocks

[internerdj]

If he is in the hospital, where are they going to get the wind from?

Re:Misnomer?

[space_jake]

Wind mooch?

it's just you

[Scrameustache]

Is it just me or is "wind farm" a misnomer? I always thought of "farm" as production. "Wind farm" makes it sound like they're producing wind. Which is obviously hogwash. Producing electricity, sure, but they didn't call it an "electricity farm."

dirt farm

-noun
a tract of land on which a dirt farmer works.

Re:Two major roadblocks

[MRe_nl]

There once was a girl from Nantucket
Who crossed the sea in a bucket,
The wind farm was there
Chopped her head and her hair
Still Ted pulled up her dress and said "FUCK IT