NJ Looks to Lead in Wind Power

And naturally, the building of massive wind farms on the Jersey coast will raise the land values and be welcomed by homeowners.

Ooohhh, false.

Sorry, Jon, but people would rather see the beaches how they exist now and deal with the consequences of a home underwater in 40 years...assuming, if things don't get better financially, it's not owned by a Korean Development Bank...

i don't believe people will object at all to them, won't hurt tourism a bit . even increase it ,the structures will increase fish life as an artifical reef. even if areas are restricted to shipping ,small craft will probably be allowed. .. not crazy about Gov.C. in general but this is a great idea. clean energy , now lets all get on the Feds to really push alternative energy transportation methods {& forget those bio-fuels,only one worth persuing is the algae based eco-fuel

Excellent!!!!!

I do believe that the global clean energy race could be the space race of the early 21st century.

The turbines could be set x number of miles offshore and not be visible unless you used binoculars.

It's a good thing states have the power to make these decisions without the federal government stepping in.

Once enough clean, renewable energy becomes popular, the rest of the states will want it too.

Maybe we don't need as much federal 'government' and they would have us believe.

Our modern world runs on oil & oil products. Just look at what the ever rising costs have done to your income. Oil is a finate commodity; where it's users are growing every year. It's long past the time when we started doing something serious about alternatives. Hats off to N.J. Do we wait till the house falls down before we consider repairs? Surely we think more of our Grandkids than that. Did you know you can buy a roofing material that acually produces electricity & hooks into the power grid? There's no single solution. Just a whole bunch of little ones that all add up. Half a loaf is better than nothing.

As a person with some experience in local government and majoring in political science in college, I always look cross eyed at anyone who talks about limiting government:)

It reminds me of a cartoon from the 1984 campaign that shows Ronald Reagan & David Stockwell on horses near the Washington Monument with nothing else around as Reagan quips to Stockwell that this is the size of government that he wanted.

Government exists to do those things that most of us can not do for ourselves.

Like Social Security, for example. Or making sure that you aren't discriminated against when you are trying to find a job or making sure that our water is clean and food is safe to eat and houses and buildings are built to specifications that make them safe.

I'm sorry, but when I hear limiting government I just hear someone who doesn't want government to watch out for me and everyone else.

Take the reigns off of government and what happens?

Just look around tonight...

It's never been this bad since the Crash of 1929!

sonof liberty1-I was not suggesting that 'reigns' be taken off government but that the federal 'government' doesn't always make sound decisions.

Right now the federal government is a fascist regime.

We have become a country of taxation without representation.

Our federal governments spending has got us into this mess where they can't pay their own paychecks without borrowing money for foreign lenders. How sound is that? Not very.

You have Wall Street crooks that have bundled bad mortgages with good and sold them to investors and no one in the federal government is even trying to put those criminals in jail.

So yes, we don't always need the federal government doing everything for us. Sometimes, the states are more competent to act on behalf of the citizens.

i wonder if old bloomberg caught wind of this...let the races begin!

Who really visits NJ?? Put the wind farms in Newark.

I have never seen wind mills put in water like that. New York should have those bad boys up and down the Hudson river.

Common sense mandates that we do as good as we can with what we have to work with. Wind is free. All we have to do is build a machine and we can harvest it. The power is worth more than the maintenance. If we start now, maybe by the time we HAVE to have it, we'll know how to do it right. It's a good idea.

wind farms are not ugly...

most of our city's 20th century architecture, IS!

There should be wind farms everywhere! I saw that dude on late night tv infomercials, let's get it blowin! lol

I actually think they are beautiful. If I lived near the ocean I really wouldn't mind, as long as I didn't have to sell my house, of course.

in the ocean mm brings new reefs, coral, fish a whole new community, cleaner safer energy sounds like a win win situation to me i say bring it on, they are not that ugly say compared to factories, mined areas, highways, but hey i am just a bird what would i know