Cape Wind is dead but others in that general area are being planned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > There is a big installation planned for Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod, so > they will be in the neighborhood. I'm not sure what the status is, there > was a lot of opposition to the project. > > Nantucket back in the 80s had machines up in a few places, and there is > still one at one of the farms there (or was a few years ago). Power is > very expensive there, it used to be diesel generators that supplied the > Island, now they have a cable from America to supply them, so wind made > economic sense under pretty much any subsidy (or not) scheme. Problem is > that the things are noisy (infrasound too) and tend to act as a > Bird-O-Matic which is somewhat incompatible with a relatively > densely-packed area (at least where they could be located) and wildlife > area. So they fell out of favor pretty rapidly. > > --FT > > > On 3/7/18 3:25 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: > >> They need to put a buncha am on Martha's >Vineyard. >>> >> There. I fixed it. >> >> Rick >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> . >> >> > -- > --FT > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
