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America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the renewable-energy dept.

Last week, an anonymous Slashdot reader submitted a story from the Associated Press, detailing the United States' first offshore wind farm that is set to open off the cost of Rhode Island this fall. Business Insider issued a report today with some additional specifications and stunning pictures of the Block Island Wind Farm: "GE and Deepwater Wind, a developer of offshore turbines, are installing five massive wind turbines in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They will make up the first offshore wind farm in North America, called the Block Island Wind Farm. Over the past several weeks, the teams have worked to install the turbines 30 miles off the cost of Rhode Island, and are expected to finish by the end of August 2016. The farm will be fully operational by November 2016." Fun fact: GE's offshore wind farm has turbines that are twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty. You can view the slideshow of images here.

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  1. Bad Choice of Location by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "GE and Deepwater Wind, a developer of offshore turbines, are installing five massive wind turbines in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean."

    The middle of the Atlantic ocean is thousands of miles from the nearest dense population center that needs that kind of energy. Why would they choose to place the wind farm there and then have to lay thousands of miles of high voltage undersea transmission line? And what of the safety issues with failed lines?

    1. Re:Bad Choice of Location by rfengr · · Score: 1, Funny

      Here I thought it was the north eastern liberals who want wind power, just not off THEIR coastline.

    2. Re: Bad Choice of Location by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      In the typical American view of the world you would fall off the edge another 30km or so beyond that, so in that respect it is the middle.

  2. 6 megawatts of energy by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was painful to read

  3. Re:14,000 ABANDONED WIND TURBINES LITTER THE USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Unfortunately the same areas that are good for siting wind farms are a natural pass for migrating birds.

    The best thing about locating wind farms offshore is that all the murdered birds just sink down to the ocean floor. No evidence; no guilt!

  4. Re:Not quite... by bmo · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're bitching that you can fucking see the windmills?

    As a former resident of RI who still loves the damn state for all its political and economic faults and the goddamned provincial attitudes and is a former member of the 294/295 telephone exchange:

    You, and everyone like you in RI is everything that is wrong with Rhode Island.

    Go. Fuck. Yourself. From. Point. Judith. All. The. Way. Across. The. Sound. To. New. Shoreham. And. Then. Fuck. Off. Some. More. Hopefully. Out. To. Sea. Forever.

    tl;dr:

    Fuck You.

    --
    BMO