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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Wind opponents exaggerate bird kill Thursday, June 23, 2005
By Solon Economou, a columnist for the Cape Cod Times
While the Altamont Pass figures, involving 20-year-old obsolete turbines, have been touted in scare tactics by local wind farm opponents, the bird kill from modern offshore wind farms is virtually zero.
The Nysted wind farm of 72 turbines, which I visited in Denmark in a recent trip organized by Clean Power Now, had only two bird kills in two years. I'd wager that's fewer than the number that dies flying into the bay windows of the shoreline home owners who have mounted such an opposition to the wind farm.