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Tilting at Windmills
When you consider the costs and risks of an offshore wind farm, and the fact that New England does not need more power, the project becomes nonsensical, a giant boondoggle for the benefit of one developer.
May 22, 2006
by William Koch
in Wall Street Journal
A project to put 130 wind turbines on 26 square miles off Nantucket Sound has generated a lot of hot air in Massachusetts -- and Washington. Contained in the arguments pro and con are partial facts, misconceptions, outright lies and hysteria. What we're not getting is a rational analysis of the Cape Wind project's effects on the supply of and demand for electricity in New England.
In the interest of full disclosure, my company has spent more than 23 years in the energy business owning and operating a number of alternative power plants. We are the world's largest seller... [continue via Web link]
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