Northeast Gardening: 2010 Garden Photos - Part 7, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Very hard choice, but I think it may prove to be a mess in the long run, though windfarms have been quite good in Europe. Birds, fishermen and recreational sailors probably will, in the fog and storms, be bashing into them on a regular basis. They better have good Bumpers.

There is also a large structure in the middle that will be butt ugly. It will, if built like the plans I have seen, be an offshore transformer substation about10 stories tall. This offshore platform would house over 40,000 gallons of transformer oil. Not cool if there is an accident.

I kind of like the look of the windmills themselves. But 400 feet high is huge and with the blades they will be much taller The Statue of Liberty is only about 300 feet tall. There are going to be 130 poles, each 20 feet in diameter, driven down 80 feet into the seabed. Wish us lots of luck. Poor birds are going to pay a heavy price.

I am hoping that they will have to have all kinds of money guarantees that when they are needing to be replaced or removed that this company won't just abandoned them like many of the oil and mining companies have done all over the world. They just walk and leave huge areas of rusty hulks. I saw in South America vast areas of abandoned oil pipe lines and equipment and junk left by BP and Shell (nice oil slick, folks) which is sickening. Seeing the polluted rivers all over the USA from the tailing is also sickening, literally , but I have hopes that this will be a far cleaner operation. Though the developer seems a tad too slick. Investment is suppose to be over 2 Billion. No telling where the money is coming from. Nice chunk of change. I might just be stupid to hope it actually works out well.

Mother nature might not like it! Hurricane proof?

Here is Mother nature putting on a show today. Patti