New Wind Turbine At Mass. Maritime
Cape Cod has its newest wind turbine. On April 14Th 2006 at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy a 660kw turbine was put up. I was lucky enough to be there for the whole thing, see the pictures below it was really neat watching the thing go up. Once the cranes were hooked up the whole thing only took about 20 minutes. Simply amazing.
It was really neat and a lot of people came to see it. Cape Cod has two large bridges that lead to the cape, and you can see the turbine from the Bourne bridge. Its really neat looking. It is not hooked up to the grid yet, but in three weeks it will start to provide power to the MMA. From what I have been told it should offset about 300,000+ of electrical bills each YEAR! That means that after the state rebates this thing will pay for itself in about 2-3 years. Sweet jebus thats a great deal, after that its all free electricity (minus maintenance of course). Hopefully it wont be long before these guys are sprouting up all over the cape, and all over the country. Each town getting two or three big ass turbines and putting that electricity toward the water treatment plant, or the recycling center or whatever the largest load in town is, the rest going toward running the stop lights etc. Come see it for yourself. You can see it from anyplace on main street in Wareham.
- Posted in : In the News, Pictures, Positive Change, The Naib
- Author :The Naib
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great set of pictures! You’re right: it really is awesome to see. It’s so clean and simple. Thanks for promoting this.
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