Four states — Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island — are all looking at
putting large wind turbine farms up to 12 miles offshore where they're far enough away from the coast to minimize tourism impacts but still close enough to provide large amounts of electricity to the states.
Not exact matches
It was the first
large - capacity floating
wind turbine to be
put in use.
The
larger a
wind turbine is the more energy it can produce, but there's a problem: as the size grows so does the weight of the
turbine blades which
puts a limit on
turbine size.
A problem with
putting large numbers of
wind turbines together in one place is that many people regard them as a serious environmental blight.
Larger wind turbines are
put on taller pillars, and the
wind speed up there is usually somewhat higher.
«Dallas oilman and investor Boone Pickens wants to build the world's
largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle, a project that would
put as many as 2,000
turbines on nearly 200,000 acres in four counties.