Stop trying to pretend no one will see turbines
Credit: Cape Cod Times, www.capecodonline.com, 26 December 2009
I would like to add my support to Robert C. Morrison (“Turbines will be visible — just compare to ferries,” Letters, Dec. 21) by way of another visualization.
All Cape Codders know they can see the Provincetown Monument from anywhere on the Cape. It is listed as being 357 feet high. Imagine over a hundred turbines whose highest points are nearly 100 feet higher.
The only place you wouldn’t see them might be from the windowless offices of those looking to profit from their construction. They probably would also not hear the whuup-whuup-whuup of 130 of these puppies, 24 hours a day, during our prevailing southwesterly winds.
I, like most Cape Codders, am fully in favor of renewable energy sources. Please stop trying to snow us with the claims that we will barely see them.
Put them offshore. I think most of us will support that.
Pete Norgeot
Orleans
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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