Mayor has big clean-energy goals for NYC 3

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   Wolverine Posted 4:43 am
   20 Aug 2008

   Mixing Good & Bad IdeasThe idea for wind farms atop bridges and skyscrapers is a good idea and should be done.  However, despoiling the oceans with that crap is just more destruction of the natural world and should be avoided.
   And BTW, for all of you who support offshore wind, just how is the electricity supposed to get back to users?  Do you propose massive underwater cables?  Powerlines in the ocean that will further degrade it?

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   MAD MAC Posted 5:19 am
   20 Aug 2008

   Wolverine, I find this curious"The idea for wind farms atop bridges and skyscrapers is a good idea and should be done.  However, despoiling the oceans with that crap is just more destruction of the natural world and should be avoided.
   And BTW, for all of you who support offshore wind, just how is the electricity supposed to get back to users?  Do you propose massive underwater cables?  Powerlines in the ocean that will further degrade it?"
   If you know that mankind is going to have large energy demands, and you know that those demands are not going to go away, then you have to make choices. One of the choices that might make you happy, but WILL NEVER HAPPEN, is that people are going to suddenly just throw up their hands and say "well, there's too many of us, and we shouldn't be using power at all". So, if the power has to come from somewhere, and you object to it coming from off shore wind farms, then you should logically offer an alternative.

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   piglet Posted 3:40 am
   21 Aug 2008

   INCLUSION, EXCLUSION?!As we address the urgent energy issues on the planet, perhaps we should remember that the biodiversity and ecology of this beautiful organic planet depends on honoring the symbiotic relationships of all species that work in concert to sustain we humans.  Wind turbines kill millions of birds as they are constructed in wind thermal routes taken by all birds, including migrating. Is there a way to avoid this?  Birds have an absolute purpose in the greater scheme of balance on this organic planet.   As we put our brilliant scientific and technological minds to resolving the massive environmental issues we have created let's keep in mind the logical end game of all new innovations.  We don't need to continue to sacrifice one element of our biodiversity just to serve our own personal needs...that's what has gotten us into this mess in the first place.  I do believe we can work at preserving/restoring the balance of nature while course correcting as we move into this new paradigm.  After all we humans are also a species within the whole system, not separate and apart from it.
   
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