US To Fire Up Big Offshore Wind Energy Projects

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 7, 2011 @01:18PM from the any-way-the-wind-blows dept.

coondoggie writes "The US government today took a bold step toward perhaps finally getting some offshore wind energy development going with $50 million in investment money and the promise of renewed effort to develop the energy source. The plan focuses on overcoming three key challenges (PDF) that have made offshore wind energy practically non-existent in the US: the relatively high cost of offshore wind energy; technical challenges surrounding installation, operations, and grid interconnection; and the lack of site data and experience with project permitting processes."

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Sigh by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-07 13:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Waste of time and money. Can we get back to drilling offshore?
I thought by SnarfQuest · 2011-02-07 13:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I thought that forcing everyone to use CFLs would reduce our power needs by such a huge amount, that additional electric plants would be unnecessary.
Or was the only improvement moving the US light bulb plants and jobs to Chinese CFL plants? At least we won't be filling our landfill with those chemically disastrous light bulbs any more.

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