Plan for 130 Turbine Wind Farm Moves Forward off Cape Cod

I am extremely excited about green energy sources expecially wind. I happen to think they are beautiful and even more so when compared to the refineries in areas like Corpus Christi, Tx.

Lets help get the obstacles out of the way this time and make this dream a reality. Coupled to the new smart grid and and conservation measures we can free ourselves from the grip of Oil.

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Hey Adam,

I see you’ve got some pep.

120,00 die from coal? Mmm…

The fact is that all societies have a death rate which can be viewed as death statistics. Every person who dies gets put into a category. When we look at the year’s heart disease stats for example, we are looking at the number of folks who died from heart disease. This includes people in their golden years. Why we should worry about heart attacks when people in their nineties are having said attacks is a mystery to me, yet we do collectively worry about it.

People die. No one knows that better than you. If you want to tell me 120,000 people died from coal plants I’m going to be skeptical of the assertion that a coal free world could have prevented those deaths. After all, I know a few people who burn tobacco daily and draw the full potency of tobacco smoke directly into their lungs. They ingest this pollution deliberately and repeatedly every day for decades and most of them are still alive. My grandmother was one of these polluters/self-polluters and she lived into her early nineties. When she died it was from a cardio pulmonary issue brought on by old age and smoking. Statistically, she became a lung related death. She had to become a death statistic eventually. I don’t blame smoking. I would be even less likely to blame coal.

Look, I’m not trying to say that your plan to phase out coal must be a bad idea, I’m just not sure you’re offering a better idea and I’m not sure that Al Gore hasn’t invested his VP Pension in wind turbine manufacturing. I’m also not sure that those folks lobbying for an end to coal are doing their part by using small refrigerators and depleting their retirement plans to wire their house for direct current and a solar array. I mean, if our own back yard isn’t already cluttered with solar arrays and wind turbines, should we really be trying so hard to fill another’s yard with such things?

Having lived in the Metro area and spent a lot of time on the Cape, I can assure you that more Cape Codders live small and use solar power.

Of the Cape I can also say, that on a clear eve’s view of a coming storm, as the sun sets behind you and the horizon dims ahead, the far edge of the ocean grows darker then the sky, allowing an abeyance of the rules that fix us in our surroundings, and allowing a fortunate few to slip the limits of expectation and arrive beautifully at unknowing what’s next.

Wine helps with this revelation. Giant aluminum pinwheels do not.

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