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Will Offshore Wind Finally Take Off on U.S. East Coast?
2013-09-23 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In June, after years of offshore wind power projects being thwarted in the United States, the first offshore wind turbine began spinning off the U.S. coast. The turbine was not a multi-megawatt, 400-foot behemoth off of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, or Texas -- all places where projects had long been proposed. Rather, the turbine was installed in Castine Harbor, Maine, rising only 60 feet in the air and featuring a 20-kilowatt capacity -- enough to power only a few homes. But it was...
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