A Mighty Wind

DoraLives writes "Fascinating New York Times piece regarding a proposed wind farm for Nantucket Sound. Suddenly, all the environmentally friendly locals are going ballistic over the prospects of seeing an 'industrial energy complex' in their backyard. Walter Cronkite decries it, as do many other local checkbook environmentalists. Greenpeace says 'Jim Gordon (the developer) is the real thing, there aren't many entrepreneurs out there willing to take risks to clean up the environment.' Who's right?"

Process

[grantsellis]

1. Plant wind

2. Raise wind

3. Harvest wind

4. PROFIT!

Re:NIMBY

[bj8rn]

I certainly could use a windmill in/near my backyard - it would drive all those bloody moles away.

House and Senate

[Anonymous Coward]

....call me crazy, but i'm thinkin those two might be a fuggin gold mine for any 'wind harvesters'....Hot-air balloon industry might like a heads-up on this too...

;-)

Re:NIMBY

[weorthe]

A hundred years from now hoity-toity real-estate agents in Nantucket will be touting the scenic view of the picturesque Nantucket Sound wind-mill farm in their hoity-toity brochures.

Re:Liberals

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot a few things...

They're against racism, unless you hate white people.

They're against sexism, unless you hate men.

They're for free speech, unless your point of view differs from theirs.

The most bigoted, intolerant, narrow minded people Iâ(TM)ve ever met have come from the left. But of course, since their bigotry, intolerance, and narrow-mindedness is politically correct, they get praised for it.

+4 interesting?

[Anonymous Coward]

The moderators are on crack.

Bush lied about 9/11. Bush lied about WMD. Bush stole an election. Bush lied about California's energy crisis. Cheney got his company a several billion dollar contract in Iraq.

Clinton lied about a blow job.

I recall....

[pjdepasq]

I once knew a girl from Nantucket...

Oh wait, that's related to another story....

Re:If we would just start researching fusion ...

[nomadic]

Multiply that by at least 10 if we were to switch over to fusion, porobably even more than 10X that.

Posting from the future, are we...

How can a fp be Redundant?

[knowledgepeacewi]

really, moderators suck today.

Re:NIMBY FACTOR

[SYFer]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who consumed megawatts by the bucket
I'm more eco than you
But don't block MY view
To your clean power source I say 'fuck it.'

Fair Weather Environmentalists

[Phoenix666]

Bug me. There have been several such stories in the NE about this lately. The other one I can remember was in upstate New York. Rich people there complained about their views being ruined too. Like other posters, I agree that the developer should acquiesce and give them a coal-burning power plant instead.

It makes me think that perhaps the wind-farm developers are going about it all wrong. They should first say they're going to put a nuke power plant in Nantucket, and let the residents get good and riled up about that. Let their faces go beet-red with fury, let them picket the site, and give them tons of air time on the local news channels. Then you throw your hands up in the air and say, "OK, OK, I give up! I'll only build a wind farm! Boy, you environmentalists sure make it hard for honest entrepreneurs to do business..." The locals will say, OK, that's more like it. They'll think they've won, and you get to build your wind farm.

Re:NIMBY

[soulsteal]

What you gain in lack of moles, you make up with in kooky old codgers with lances and sidekicks names Sancho Panza.

Re:NIMBY

[bj8rn]

Yes, but they are MUCH easier to get rid of than moles.

Wow!

[mdielmann]

Not being from the US, I didn't know that welfare got >2x what defense got (would I have known if I was American? ;). But here's an idea - draft welfare recipients. No more street people and defense gets more money (somewhat offset by the low-ranking, low-pay conscripts). It's a winning solution, well, except for the welfare recipients, but what an incentive to get off the dole!

Of course, I don't believe that, but you can bet there's at least one clown on the Hill who thinks that's a good idea (and he probably has half his staff telling him to shut up about that idea until pension kicks in...).

Re:NIMBY

[azav]

From Canada? Don't worry. We Americans will free you from the tyrannical oppression of your rulers soon enough.