Company wants to build first American offshore wind park (500 MW, DE)

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/BUSINESS01/702250332/1066

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - With the frigid late-January wind whipping off the ocean, it wasn't much of a day to stroll the boardwalk or sit on the beach. But it would have been a great day to generate electricity from the first offshore wind farm in the country.

If 200 wind turbines had been sitting offshore, the wind would have spun them at maximum speed, generating in 24 hours 500 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 500,000 homes for one day.

Bluewater Wind, a New Jersey company, wants to build such a wind park either 12.5 miles off the coast of this seaside city or seven miles off Bethany Beach to provide Delaware residents a new source of electricity.

Supporters point out that production would be free of the pollutants or heat-trapping "greenhouse gas" emissions associated with conventional power plants, and fueled by abundant, and free, Atlantic Ocean winds.

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Aaarrgh! Make it stop! :banghead:

dealt with for tens of thousands of years.

:applause: