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Cape Wind Scrambling to Meet Deadline to Qualify for $780 Million Taxpayer Gift
2013-12-28 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: Cape Wind is the leading offshore wind energy project in the United States. In 2001, more than 12 years ago, Jim Gordon, the project founder, started the process of promoting his vision of a building a 430 MWe (peak capacity) field of 130 massive (rotor diameter 110 m, hub height 80 m, nacelle weight 100 tons) turbines. Gordon chose his location, a shallow water area in Nantucket Sound off of the coast of Cape Cod, because it was one of the best available areas in US waters for a wind installation....
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