Delaware's New Wind Farm!

(pretty picky via this cat)

The Net is just so chock full of good, encouraging news these days, it's like being a kid in an eco-goodness candy store. Really, where to start?

On the home front, CNN has just reported that Delaware has just reached an agreement to build an off-shore wind farm, capable of powering the homes and businesses of over 50,000 Delawarians. (Delawarites? Delawareses?) People in Delaware.

Read on:

"Using electricity generated by the wind, "Delmarva Power will be able to light about 50,000 homes a year, every year" for the duration of the 25-year contract, Lanard said, with first power expected by 2012.

He said the project may help stabilize consumer energy costs, since the contract locks in the price Delmarva will pay per kilowatt-hour."

"Each turbine in the Delaware project is to sit on a pole about 250 feet above the waterline, where the ocean is about 75 feet deep. The poles are to extend 90 feet into the seafloor, and the units are to be constructed to withstand hurricane-force winds.

From the shore, the park will be visible only on clear winter days, and the turbines will be nearly invisible during summer months when Rehoboth Beach fills with vacationers, Lanard said.

Each blade on the three-blade rotor is to be 150 feet long.

"If they can see them at all, the turbine blades would cover about the size of your thumbnail, and the poles would be about the width of a toothpick."

Here's the original article.

So, the US is getting what will undoubtedly be the first of many off-shore wind farms.

Great news. Take heart, for the big change is upon us.

In the meantime, be excellent to each other, wear a helmet when you're biking, and don't steal other kids toys when you're playing in the sandbox.

Love to all,

Team SuperForest


tasty.