Josh Hill wrote:
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> 
> But Nantucket is a special case, wild, beautiful, unique and
> wonderful. Meanwhile, farmers love turbines -- don't interfere with
> farming, and provide extra income, so there are lots of places where
> they'd be welcome, and they happen to have some of the richest wind
> resources. The other resource-rich area -- which has the advantage of
> being located by our major population centers -- is the coast.
> Turbines could be located over the horizon, possibly on floating
> platforms, although the electricity they produced would cost a few
> cents per kW-hr more.

Britain is already building wind farms at sea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/5277866.stm>

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The first of two of the world's biggest offshore wind turbines been 
fitted into place near the Beatrice Field in the Moray Firth.

The tower and its components were taken by barge from the former oil 
fabrication yard at Nigg, in Invergordon, on Sunday.

It has now been put into a jacket which secures it to the seabed.
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Andrew Swallow
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