You'd need THOUSANDS of these to make a dent in NYC's energy consumption. So don't get too excited.

If the power is used for New York City and not another part of the state I am all for them. Individual buildings, privately owned should also consider roof-top wind farms.

The issue with the proposed wind farm off the coast of Nantucket, is less about appearance and more about the fact that the energy produced by them would not be used for the Cape and Islands, but rather for towns and cities in the middle of Massachusetts.

im in rockaway. im down for it, but i doubt it'll actually happen.

this would be awesome

Or they could harness the energy of all those flailing drowning victims...

the word "replica" sort of implies cheap knockoffs or non-functioning, well, replicas.

Exactly. Maybe they'll just build 10-foot turbines one mile out from shore and tell everyone they're really far away so we can feel a little less guilty for all this power we suck down sitting here commenting

That's a cool idea. I've seen some in the Netherlands and they look awesome. They should move them a bit closer to shore so they are visible. It would bring more folks out to The Rockaways.

Wait till you hear the swish 24/7 from these. Worse than a jackhammer at night.

If you can hear the "swish" from turbines 15 miles out at sea, you've got hearing better than Superman's.

I hear the "swish" from traffic on Riverside Drive constantly. Civilization is about noise. Anyway, it might drown out the sound of stupid people and their stupid music on Rockaway Beach, and that would be a plus.

As long as they're miles away from shore, everyone is happy. Hopefully.

Why doesn't he fund it himself and call it the Bloomberg wind farm?

Ted Kennedy (and the others) fought them tooth and nail because they would have blocked his view of the sea horizon from his estate at Hyannisport.

That's actually not true. They fought them off the coast of Nantucket because the energy produced by them would not benefit the Cape and Islands, but rather towns and cities in the middle of Massachusetts.

Yeah, it is true. Most of the energy will go to the cape. It was just a cover that Tedward tried to use. It is just a total nimby reaction there. dumb.

I'm a lifelong Queens-ite and I'm all for them. Guess we have to wait for whoever lives in the Rockaways to chime in to break this run of positivity.

I love it, but I read a really interesting article about wind power and that these things are build with steel and than means mining iron ore. And that building lots of them is really needed if you want real power production and that means price of steel goes up. And that makes wind power too expensive because you can't afford the cost of wind farms.

It went into the competition for iron ore/steel getting intense given all the building in places like China and india. Who knows. It was pro wind but it reminded the reader that magic pills don't exist. Every action has a reaction was the theme.

They are ugly but still majestic, in a way. Does that make sense.

Ok, but what's the alternative? Building a coal fired power plant out of compost and recycled cardboard? Everything is built out of steel!

As long as we're going to go to the trouble and pollution to get the raw material we may as well do something low-impact with it, no?

Thats a keen point, but only comes into play when wind turbines are built on a much larger scale than they are now. It is also only a critique is one assumes that there are no replacements for steel, or if other power sources would use less steel or create less harm in their production.

Certainly if there is a great enough market pressure, something else will replace steel as the main component.

That's the problem with a lot of "green" initiatives...building them isn't green at all.