Slashdot Mirror
New York Approves Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Off Long Island (computerworld.com)
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has approved what will be the longest U.S. offshore wind farm when it's built off the east end of Long Island. When it's all said and done, it will generate enough electricity to power more than 50,000 homes on Long Island's South Fork. Computerworld reports: The South Fork Wind Farm will consist of 15 wind turbines with 90 megawatts (MW) of capacity. While the project still needs to complete its permitting process, construction could start as early as 2019 and it may be operational as early as 2022. The approval of the South Fork Wind Farm, to be located 30 miles southeast of Montauk, is the first step toward developing 1,000 megawatts (1 gigawatt) of offshore wind power, Cuomo said in a statement. The wind farm approval comes two weeks after Cuomo's State of the State Address, during which he called for the development of 2.4 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. The 2.4 gigawatt target, which is enough power generation for 1.25 million homes, is the largest commitment to offshore wind energy in U.S. history, Cuomo said. Cuomo wants New York state to get 50% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030. The nation's first offshore wind farm, the Block Island Wind Farm, went live last month. Both the Block Island and South Fork wind farms are owned by Deepwater Wind, a company based in Providence, R.I.
At 30mi offshore, my napkin math suggests you'd need to be nearly 600ft in the air to see them, and that through the haze. A rational NIMBY argument would be a bit difficult to come by.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
It's all part of the Kennedy creed: "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask for special treatment and privileges."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I'm a photographer and actually notice things around me.
I don't like all those fucking power poles and lines but did you ever think of that?
No.
You only think about yourself.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
"A rational NIMBY argument would be a bit difficult to come by."
Unfortunately, NIMBYs are just as good at fabricating irrational arguments. Just you watch: the continental shelf 30 miles offshore will turn out to be sacred ground to someone.
There's infrasound - it affects people in the area who are not getting any financial benefit from a windmill and either want it to go away or get a cut themselves. It has the advantage of being impossible to detect (at least in the case of windmills) but people will tell you they "feel it". It causes lung conditions in smokers, heart problems in obese people and a very long list of other unlikely symptoms.
All we can do is read Don Quixote and laugh at how apt it is so many centuries later. People hate change and cling to a golden age that never happened - by charging at windmills!
...we haven't gotten to the point of State Run Media or Ministry of Information...
CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, and nearly everyone came awfully close for the Obama Administration.
Media bias (on some spectrum between real and perceived) is an entirely different thing than placing gag orders on in-the-public-interest government agencies and publicy-funded scientific work. But go ahead, keep treating this as a game show, because obviously this is just politics-as-usual and nothing could possibly go wrong in such an exceptional place as the US... (/sarcasm)
It's selfishness. Don't want an offshore wind farm near my property, faintly visible on clear days and not exactly ugly. No, someone else can have a fossil fuel or nuclear plant near them, and I'll happily consume that energy at subsidised prices, thank you very much.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC