This is an interesting piece from the BBC about a government energy review:
"The government's energy review, which aims to boost the portion of UK power generated from sources such as wind, tides and biomass to 20% by 2020."
There's a lot of focus, quite rightly, on wind farms. I spotted an article the other days taht said up to 90% of electricity in the US could be generated by coastal wind farms. I know that you can prove anything with stats but it does seem like they're becoming more acceptable.
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Here it is, from the veritable website, capecodtoday.com:
http://www.capecodtoday.com/news246.htm
"There is as much wind power potential (900,000 megawatts) off our coasts as the current capacity of all power plants in the United States combined, according to a new report entitled, A Framework for Offshore Wind Energy Development in the United States, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and General Electric."
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And for anyone foolish enough to think that wind turbines are ugly, how about this:
http://www.techreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=...
Off-shore, floating farms of wind turbines :)
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