For nine years Cape Wind has been attempting to receive government approval to build the first U.S. offshore wind energy production facility. It appears that despite opposition from many quarters the plant will finally be approved.

Cape Wind will generate around 1 half gigawatt of power. That is just 1/50th the electricity made by an average sized nuclear plant. Opponents to Cape wind cite this relatively small production as well as the aesthetic results to the area in the Nantucket Sound as reasons to not grant license.

Yet U.S. President Obama has recently signed off on off the coast of Florida drilling for oil as if huge oil leaking platforms were no environmental threat. The world and in particular the United States is covered with a tattoo of telephone wires and concrete ribbons. Placing 130 Wind Vanes miles offshore will not affect beaches or boating. It will set guidelines for safe and effective wind energy production in areas where the land masses are too developed for conventional wind farms.



Wind farming requires large amounts of land. This is no problem in undeveloped agricultural areas but we shan’t be placing wind vanes on top of the Empire State Building. Offshore there exists an endless amount of acreage for wind farming. In Europe these "wide open spaces" have been used for energy production for over ten years.