At five miles...you can't see a thing. Of course, if rafting or sailing...within one mile...it will be obvious. You can bank on this...no wind farms on the entire cape...off the cape or on the cape itself...will be allowed. So you can start asking yourself just what kinda special interests are at work and how much they care about alternate electrical power (answer: none).
In Germany...with around 20,000 of these wind-mills out there...it barely produces 2 percent of the national grid. Of course, the long term goal is 30 percent...to knock atomic energy out of the system. But you can figure the numbers here...well over 200,000 would be necessary. And Germans are already starting to have heartburn at 20,000 now. You have to place them in places where wind does occur...so that takes a number of places out of competition. And the tops of hills are the best spot...which offends alot of the nature lovers.
Nope, yak, yak, yak, and nothing will change. We need to drill now and at the same time, look ahead to the future, not wait like we have. Still, I do not believe no matter what they do, energy costs are going to decline for the average American.
At the end of 2005, Germany has 17,574 turbines producing 5.5% of national electricity requirements.
No one alternative is gong to be the end all supplier. That could be a plus also - eggs in separate baskets - harder for someone to destroy them all at once.
I'm semi-retired - make a little money writing, a little painting, etc - put it together and I eat. If I sat and said to myself, well, the writing isn't going to be enough, or the painting isn't going to bring in enough, so I'll do nothing, I'd be really hungry by now.