I watched this yesterday! It’s great!
Thank you again, Laura!

I hope Ted likes breathing coal fumes

I’m with some peeps and can’t watch that youtube yet but I’m not understanding why wind mining has to be land based, I would think it’s gonnab be more productive off shore.

this could even be in vessels that could follow the wind and somewhat and they would be designed to retract the windmills during storms beyond their design

but I just invented that scenario in my own head, I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t thought of it yet

when I say “land based”, I mean these “wind farms” don’t have to be close enough to give communities any concern

Here’s what I don’t get: There’s plenty of wind available in America. Is the chosen site the only or best or most effective site in the bay? Or is it just the site that the developer managed to buy? What I haven’t heard while this debate has gone on and on is why the wind farm has to be in anyone’s sitelines. But I’m certainly willing to learn.

Great video, thank you Laura!

Or is it just the site that the developer managed to buy?

good question, and to add to your post, isn’t the government giving land for these wind farms the same way they award land to oil companies for refineries

Kennedy, breathing coal fumes? Not likely.

But Don Young has a hand in stopping Cape Wind, so that gives you some idea about whether or not the pressure to stop it is coming from reliable people.

Woo hoo!!! Did I call it right or what?

Obama backtracks on abortion right!!!!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....-abortion/

if they build it in nantucket sound, shouldnt it be a municipal utility with benefits for everyone in the Commonwealth, and without private profit.
otherwise, the idea is suspect.

I am not prepared to rely on reporting from CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE or even TIME Magazine about this.
He should be asked to comment on this publicly and at a presser or on his website.

Not wind power, but related to topic (sort of!)

‘Sharp has designed a TV that can get 100% of its power from the sun. The company plans to exhibit the 26-inch LCD prototype at the Hokkaido Toyako Summit, or G8 Summit, in Hokkaido, Japan, on July 7-9.’
http://www.physorg.com/news134395495.html

this I agree with, these wind farms need to be “comons”, I am against these being “privitized” in any shape or form

Seems they are indeed private ventures. Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is set to do a major wind farm project in Texas.

End users won’t be seeing a reduction in electricity costs with guys like Pickens and their primary motives to create massive profits.

then all the more reason for the people to object — noisily and often

Visually, these are not near as offensive as electric power lines or oil derricks. That being said I don’t think they should be screwing up anyone’s ocean view; millionaire or not. And they definitely should be for the common good and not for private profit.

Maybe this would help with the ocean view thing.
‘Innovative concept could make wave energy more affordable
A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves.’

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_.....070308.php

The best place in the U S of A to put a wind farm would be Washington DC– talk about wind.

many wind projects aren’t just private - they’re offshore investors from countries other than our own - using American public land that’s imperiled wildlife habitat.

wind and solar are good - but not inherently - good planning ought be a key element.

Ms. Flanders, it would have been nice if you had done some due dilligence about this subject and presented a balanced story instead of this piece of propaganda from Cape Winds. Let me present the following:
1. Nantucket Sound is not the playground of the rich. Most of the people
who use the sound are commercial fishermen, hardly millionaires, and
tourists and recreational boaters. And yes, there are the rich.
2. The Cape’s electrical power is generated by an oil fueled power plant,
where did Cape Wind come up with this b.s. concerning coal?
3. It is my understanding that the electricity generated by the windmills
would be fed into the main power grid on shore and not directly used
to replace any of the generated electricity on the Cape.
4. It has been suggested, I believe by RFK jr., that the windmills should
be situated on the back side of Nantucket, thus eliminating any
opposition.
5. Cape Wind stands to make millions by using public land and ocean, but I
never hear anything concerning payments to government for this use.

I agree with this poster — the Sound is not just important to millionaires. Lots of Cape Codders and Islanders are opposed to this project for justifiable reasons.

I can’t wait to see this movie. I am a giant fan of wind generated electricity. We had them going up on ridges in Eastern Tennessee. They actually looked like artwork there (imagine Cristo’s NY work in Central Park and when he surrounded the island chain in pink near Miami’s Biscayne Park). Anyway, lots of families hiked up to look at the turbines and nobody complained about them. Except Lamar Alexander. He’s a Tennessee Senator, Republican and land owner near an exclusive area of the Great Smoky Mountains. He stopped the turbines claiming that they were ruining the mountain views. But they were not in the mountains, they were on ridges, the same ridges that always have had massive power poles and power lines for as far as the eye could see. The wierd thing about all this is now Lamar has gone into the wind power business. At least he is named as a leader of a group ( a lobbying group) that promotes wind power. I’ve thought all along that he fought it because there was no money in it for him and his buds. Free electricity? We can’t have that. But since its gaining in popularity, how can he make money off it> By now promoting it. My fear is that he will sabatoge it. There is no reason why everyone shouldn’t have a turbine somewhere on their home.