“America’s first offshore wind farm will connect sometime today to Block Island, a small, pork chop-shaped part of Rhode Island off the tip of Long Island. For Cliff McGinnes, a co-owner of the Block Island Power Company, the transition to wind power can’t come soon enough.
For decades, McGinnes’s company ferried up to a million gallons of diesel fuel a year from the Rhode Island mainland to power this tiny resort community (population 1,000). The fuel, a particularly costly and dirty energy source whose carbon dioxide emissions are second only to burning coal, lit up four antiquated generators on an island where power outages are common…”
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Lol we have hundreds of these in Wales we had them offshore for about 14years or less i think.
]]>And we have some on land. I think there 16milion each I think.
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