Wind Power

After reading a little about the Bluewater Wind project in Deleware, and hearing some of people's views and concerns about wind power, I still believe it to be a brilliant idea. It is a new technology so there will be many kinks to work out and problems to be worked around, but there is also the possibility for so much advancement in the new technology.

Just think about oil. We began utilizing it in it's crude form and have since been refining and advancing the technology to change it and be powered by it so that now we even have different gradients of octane for different cars to use. People are concerned that wind is unreliable as a power source, after all having a constant wind at a steady rate for even a short time is very odd. But just because we do not yet have the technology to store that excess energy for times of calm does not mean that it will never exist. Just having the idea of it, and having an industry to supply that new technology to, will spur scientists into a flurry of activity.

Another major concern is the aesthetic aspect. People do not want their pristine ocean view to be marred by these massive wind turbines. I personally think they are clean cut pieces of engineering artwork. Unlike wind turbines on land however, these would be located on an offshore sandbar. Other proposed wind farms would be located 5 to 7 miles out, but in Delaware they would be located 12 miles out. Considering a normal person standing on the beach can see a horizon only 3 to 4 miles away, I don't think many people would be that disconcerting about tiny blips on the horizon, if they noticed anything at all.

Another major concern is bird kills (I don't believe bats would be a factor that far out at sea). Do birds actually go that far out on a regular basis? I feel like most migrating birds would be fairly far away from the danger. Not to mention any bird lacking the skill to evade a slowly turning wind turbine may deserve to be taken out for the good of the species, just my feeling.