The Observation Deck

Hi,
Breezin' around the web and I found this...

Here's a nice site for info on a Wind Farm under consideration on Nantucket Sound.

http://capewind.whgrp.com/

In 10 knots of wind their farm would produce 45 MW per hours The 130 wind turbines would be capable of producing up to 420 megawatts.

There is a video of the Nysted offshore wind farm in Denmark at:
http://www.capewind.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=77&page=1#nysted

It's beautiful!

On the Erie shore opposite of us Canada is building the Erie Shores Wind Farm. It is 66 1.5mw turbines that is scheduled to begin operation early this year. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Shores_Wind_Farm Their's is on-shore.

Hi,
2005 was a great year for wind power worldwide. 43% increase over 2004.

See: http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2006/2/26/91333/5244

Now is a great time for Lakewood to take center stage in America.

Hi,
While a big organized wind farm like the one shown above is good and certainly one way to address the issue. Wind mills are such a compartmentized unit of energy creation that they do not function solely in this manner. You can just stick 1 in a windy spot and get a great deal of benefit. For instance, the owners of the properties on the Gold Coast could stick one between 2 of the big hi-rises and take advantage of the wind tunnel created there. I believe once Lakewood sets the stage and educates people on how well these units work others would follow the City's example.

Hi,
On that Cape Wind site ( http://capewind.whgrp.com/ ) if you scroll down the home page you will see how much energy could have been produced over the last hour. In the last hour it would have produced nearly twice the needs of the Cape and Islands (420 mwhours possibly produced vs 230 MW of need). In addition you see how much emmissions could have been prevented. Using coal 815,382 lbs/hour2 of CO2 would have been saved. Isn't there a commodities market for these emissions elsewhere in the World maybe Europe? Could Lakewood add to their revenues by using our Wind Farm to save on CO2 emissions and sell our CO2 credits elsewhere in the World? I don't know. Does anyone have a better understanding of how this works?

I think Natsource is the group that does this. You know I didn't think about it but this should be factored in as well wtih the cost/benefit analysis of the windmill farm.

http://www.natsource.com/markets/index_sub.asp?s=177