Comments on: Got Docs? Cape Wind:The Fight for the Future of Power in America

By: glennmcgahee

glennmcgahee — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:18:27 +0000

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.

By: eruditeblonde

eruditeblonde — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:00:09 +0000

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.

By: JohnfromBoston

JohnfromBoston — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:18:24 +0000

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.

By: begreen

begreen — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:56:46 +0000

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.

By: Nanz

Nanz — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:32:40 +0000

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

By: jackie

jackie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:22:14 +0000

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

By: mls78

mls78 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:01:19 +0000

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.

By: Dearie

Dearie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:43:02 +0000

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

By: hackworth

hackworth — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:19:29 +0000

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.

By: perris

perris — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:10:43 +0000

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