is this going affect us?

len_ws · Joined: 06 Oct 2015 Posts: 2

What you guys thinks?
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today he was approving the nation's first offshore wind farm, the controversial Cape Wind project off of Cape Cod.

This will break a wind defenatelly and slow it down.

paulch · Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Boston, MA

Looks like it's miles away from Kalmus. I suspect we'll be ok even in a southerly breeze.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/04/20/stacks.cape.wind.jpg

bates · Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 301

Might hurt the seabreeze drivers, but likely it will do nothing to kalmus's wind

DrWind · Joined: 17 Jul 1994 Posts: 467

Who knows? Maybe it will have the opposite effect....

Do not have time to do the math, but I think you can get the idea from this paper.

http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wp-content/uploads/wake-ris-r-1615.pdf

flaherty · Joined: 01 May 1997 Posts: 437

From Wikipedia

The footprint for the proposed project covers 24 square miles, and would be 4.8 miles (7.7 km) from Mashpee, on the south coast of Cape Cod, and 15.8 miles (25.4 km) from the island town of Nantucket. The project envisions 130 horizontal-axis wind turbines, each having a hub height of 285 feet. The blade diameter is 364 feet (111 m), with the lowest blade tip height at 75 feet (23 m) and the top blade tip height at 440 feet (130 m).[2] The turbines would be sited between 4–11 miles offshore depending on the shoreline.

That's freakin huge. 440 feet above the water. 24 square miles.
It's gonna be one ugly Mother% $ * & if you ask me. I think it will defintely screw up the wind.
Can you trust the government? Just ask the Indians!

outcast · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 2724

It's Horrible i tell you....horrible!

paulf. · Joined: 21 Mar 1996 Posts: 435

funny post outcast; the difference being the turbines on land in the canaries, so you get to sail in the wind before it gets all chopped up. in my area, the noise from a wind farm is driving the abutters nuts, really. don;t know if we'll hear this one onshore.
paul

WaterKook · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject:

It might help mix the wind down to the surface and reduce the decoupling when the water is cold in the spring.
Let's hope Rolling Eyes

outcast · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 2724

I don't really care too much one way or the other.....It ain't perfect.
By the same token, that oil fire in the gulf wasn't/isn't too much fun.

And if you want to talk ugly, look at what we have now:

outcast · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 2724

And JE, where the hell are you?
Cause it's on up here.....