And so it begins, in earnest

[Rockfish9]

IMHO, this wind turbine idea is not viable. We are not talking about providing a single farm house of the prairie, it is going to take many, many of these, monstrosities to power even a small city, and who is going to pay for this, many miles of sea bed are going to be disturbed to run power lines, once installed, they will be guarded to protect from terrorist attacks ( both foreign and domestic), so forget fishing near them, you need storage and battery backup, electricity is an extremely inefficient power source. it always has been, yes, it's gotten better, and it has its place, in total agreement SOMETHING has to be done, we all have seen the huge weather swings. And the changing climate we live in, there is no denying that, some of it is "our" Falt, some of it is a natural cycle ( remember there was an ice age), people need to leave the politics out of it( and where money is involved politicians and i mean any and all of them will get their sticky little fingers in it) if there is ever to be a real solution to the problem, I wish they would work on a real solution instead of a stop gap band aid approach, stop the force feeding of money/political driven agendas... wind power has been around a long, long time, I'm just not sure this ( building wind platforms at sea) is the answer... only time will tell.