Wind farms off Cape Cod have been in the news a lot lately. Cape Wind's hopes of seizing Horseshoe Shoals are almost completely dead, and Denmark-based DONG Energy is proposing a 1,000 megawatt project 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard.
So how do you actually install 100 giant wind turbines in the ocean bed? It can't all be easy sledding.
The folks at Deepwater Wind have encountered all sorts of adventures in their efforts to install tubines off Block Island. Everything from humpback whales stopping construction, to huge barges breaking loose.
This is great stuff!:
Offshore Wind Farm encounters events making progress in Rhode Island near Cape Cod.
Offshore Wind Farm encounters events making progress in Rhode Island near Cape Cod.