First US Offshore Wind Power Park In Delaware 363
Dekortage writes "Offshore wind power company Bluewater Wind has announced an agreement to build America's first offshore wind turbine park off the coast of Delaware. 'Each turbine [will sit on] a pole about 250 feet above the waterline... the units are to be constructed to withstand hurricane-force winds. From the shore, the park will be visible only on clear winter days, and the turbines will be nearly invisible during summer months when Rehoboth Beach fills with vacationers. Each blade on the three-blade rotor is to be 150 feet long.' The wind farm will power 50,000 homes in Delaware, using about half of its capacity."
The conspiracy continues... (Score:5, Funny)
The wind farm will power 50,000 homes in Delaware
Lies. There are no homes in Delaware. Ask yourself, do you know anyone from Delaware?
I thought not.
Delaware is a plot between the banking industry and the DuPonts to get a few free Senators. Don't believe the lies.
Don't forget... (Score:5, Funny)
According to TFA there are also tourists.
But that only begs the question...who would go to Delaware for a vacation?
Well, I've been to Delaware... (Score:3, Funny)
And I agree with everything you said.
Dela-Where?? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't forget... (Score:5, Funny)
That alone makes Delaware worth a vist, if only to check out the brewery and then drink oneself into oblivion... to avoid having to face the reality that you did, indeed, got to Delaware for a vacation.
Re:The conspiracy continues... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dela-Where?? (Score:5, Funny)
Beach????? (Score:2, Funny)
West Coast Jealousy (Score:2, Funny)
Not secure against NIMBY attacks! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Don't forget... (Score:5, Funny)
> I was stationed at Dover AFB from 1971-1973 [...] I owned a motorcycle and a new 1869 Mustang.
After 102+ years, I don't think your horse was even alive, let alone "new".
They changed the state motto (Score:4, Funny)
From "Small Wonder" to "Don't Blink". But for the hundreds of State Troopers on I-95 making up the State's entire budget, you could drive through Delaware in about 6 minutes.
Re:Don't forget... (Score:5, Funny)
Never before or since I was there have I ever been so bored, and I owned a motorcycle and a new 1869 Mustang.
That's your problem ... the Mustangs were a lot more fun once they started making them out of metal and putting gasoline engines into them!
Re:Cool; Now to expand to the great lakes (Score:1, Funny)
Washington D.C. is one town which could get a lot of energy from wind turbines. They could install them completely unseen inside the capital building.
Re:The conspiracy continues... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't forget... (Score:5, Funny)
But that only begs the question...who would go to Delaware for a vacation?
Re:Don't forget... (Score:5, Funny)
You all suck. I'm from Delaware and I'm the coolest guy you know.
I:
-have Real Genius AND Aliens memorized word for word ....and am alive to type about it.
-speak 23 languages, 3 of which are actually used on this planet
-actually have a job
-changed my underwear recently
-am voting for the Cylons this upcoming election
and
-fought Chuck Norris
Beat that.
Re:The conspiracy continues... (Score:5, Funny)
Haha, that just goes to show that Americans get an unfairly bad rap for being bad at geography. It turns out you Canadians know far less about American geography than we know about everyone else's geography!
Man, what a bunch of losers. I'm so going to mock you losers when I travel up to the oceanfront property I just bought in Alberta. I'm pretty sure my property is close to your national capital in Toronto too, so maybe I'll just have to go complain to your President about all the jokes. You'll be sorry you ever made fun of us!
Deleware's power is incompatible with other states (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cool; Now to expand to the great lakes (Score:1, Funny)
I drop these notes here and there, hoping they'll catch. Wind power is DANGEROUS! Why would we want to remove energy from the device which:
- Moves heat energy around the planet?
- Is part of the weather matrix?
- Allows seeds to be disseminated?
- Provides a means for birds to migrate?
We are once again attacking that which we know little about. The only climate neutral energy source is solar( and that assumes we can manufacture the equipment reasonably efficiently). Let's leave wind power where it belongs!
Case in Point... (Score:1, Funny)
You can cross the bridges into New Jersey for free, but you have to pay to get back out.
Re:Environmental Impact (Score:3, Funny)
Is that why they banned sail ships and replaced them with steam ships?
Re:The conspiracy continues... (Score:5, Funny)
It's worse than that.
I had a bartender in Olean, New York confiscate my driver's license because, and I quote, "This is a fake, there is no such state as Delaware".
I went over the bar to get it back, the cops got called, it was getting pretty ugly until the cop got there (the cop told the bartender he was a retard).
Re:The conspiracy continues... (Score:4, Funny)
Everyone knows the main purpose of Delaware is actually to mark the credit card junk mail you can throw out without looking at it.
Re:The conspiracy continues... (Score:2, Funny)
That can be a bad thing. Your family orders stuff and has it shipped to your address to avoid sales tax. Then you got to bring/ship it to them.
Now try explaining to your girlfriend that the Victoria's Secret order is not for her and she shouldn't be mad/jealous. Then calling your parents to tell them that they are getting the therapy bill for thinking of your mother wearing said Victoria's Secret outfit.
Easy.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here it comes... (Score:3, Funny)
Plus, they'd have to have their captain steer around them while out on their yachts.
Layne
Re:Ocean view (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Don't forget... (Score:3, Funny)
If you're from North Jersey|Down the Shore|The Pine Barrens you won't think anyplace else is paradise... you'll think it's a different planet.
New Jersey is, in fact, a gateway to a different planet. This is why we get the weirdos. Show me a photo of a bunch of teenage NJ guidos, look me in the eye, and tell me with a straight face that they are not aliens. It can't be done.
Don't you think there's a reason the aliens landed in NJ in "War of the Worlds"?
The only other possibility is that due to all the toxic waste, NJ is now largely populated by mutants. However, the same effect is not observed in Silicon Valley, so I don't think we can ascribe it to toxic waste.
/I'm a NJ native and have been documenting the culture and physiology of the resident aliens in NJ for two decades. Trust me on this one.