The possibility of eventually going further and deeper will be enhanced by the experience that will be gained with the turbines in Nantucket Sound....It is prudent that the first projects be relatively close to shore, and in relatively shallow water before moving further out. Nantucket Sound is a good place to begin.
-- Dr. James F. Manwell, Director, Renewable Energy Research Laboratory, UMass
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Ted Danson: Congress, Offshore Wind Just Needs a Push Thursday, July 22, 2010
Here's an irony for you: The same ocean breezes that are pushing oil onto the beaches and wetlands of the Gulf of Mexico could be helping to power our country and reduce our dependence on those very fossil fuels.