Windshore Project

[thesummerqueen]

"Massive offshore wind project could generate 70,000 new jobs"

http://grist.org/business-technology/mas...-new-jobs/

"In May of 2011, our David Roberts deemed the Atlantic Wind Connection “a Big Deal.” His capitalization. The project, funded in part by Google’s energy-focused subsidiary, would install a massive transmission backbone along the Eastern seaboard connected to a series of offshore wind farms.

And according to a new estimate commissioned by project backers, it could create more than 70,000 new jobs."

"This doesn’t include the jobs that will be created at gas stations as anti-wind activists drive up and down the coast protesting children." (http://grist.org/wind-power/americans-fo...ying-kids/)

[Something completely different]

aslong as this is nothing else but a enviormentalists wet dreams, and there is no actual funding, planing or eaven the will to build it, behind it, well it`s useless

[thesummerqueen]

....wow...shit has to start somewhere.

[Minimalist]

....wow...shit has to start somewhere.

Usually with the bible.

[festive1]

It's better than coal or natural gas. I hope it works.

[thesummerqueen]

I'm just sayin', don't knock a fuckin' idea just because it isn't fully realized yet. Things don't spring forth like Athena from Zeus' head.

[popeyespappy]

There's a shit load of wind power being generated here in Texas. Almost 10% of the state's power currently comes from wind, and there are at least 3 big wind farms on the coast between Rockport and Brownsville.

[popeyespappy]

I drove to San Antonio and back to Corpus Christi today. On I-37 during the trip up I passed eight trucks each hauling one huge frickin blade for a wind turbine. Man those things are big.

[thesummerqueen]

Yeah they are. I've passed a few articles today about "Big Wind". I ought to go back and read them and add them here.