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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. Re:14,000 ABANDONED WIND TURBINES LITTER THE USA by whoever57 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Without government subsidy, they are unaffordable. With governments facing financial troubles, the subsidies are unaffordable. It was a nice dream, a very expensive dream, but it didnâ(TM)t work.

    You are wrong. It worked. The subsidies have brought down the costs of installing wind power to the point that it is becoming competitive with (and perhaps cheaper than) other forms of generation.

    These 6MW turbines are actually small. 8MW turbines are being installed now. The effective cost will be higher because only a small number of turbines are being installed.

    This is a recent article from someone who has been very skeptical about alternative energy

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  2. Re:14,000 ABANDONED WIND TURBINES LITTER THE USA by darthsilun · · Score: 4, Informative

    Spreading FUD? Got an agenda? David Koch, is that you?

    http://www.aweablog.org/fact-check-about-those-abandoned-turbines/ (Yeah, yeah, it's on the Internet, so it must be true.)

    One failed wind farm is hardly a reason why wind farms are necessarily a bad thing.