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NYC_SKP

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1. Let's start building wind turbines along the coasts where the wind is best.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 01:27 AM

Jul 2014

Unfortunately, this idea is rejected out of hand by our own people.

I attended a public hearing in SF with Boxer, Salazar, and many others on the panel, the topic of which was "permitting research of offshore renewable energy technologies", and Boxer and most of "the good guys" were so concerned that big oil would somehow get in there and screw up the ocean that it was just embarrassing how little they knew.

At another public hearing people were scared to death of offshore wave generation technologies.

Thankfully, Oregon is more open minded, but if we don't start installing more renewable generation capacity, it's going to be too late very soon!!!

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Coastal Winds Intensifying With Climate Change, Study Says [View all] Rhiannon12866 Jul 2014 OP

Let's start building wind turbines along the coasts where the wind is best. NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #1

Wow! We've had wind farms in New York since 2000, though not nearly as many as we could have Rhiannon12866 Jul 2014 #2

There are so many myths and misconceptions about energy. NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #3