Organikos posted: " On previous occasions when we linked to stories about windfarms' large turbines, we have noticed that aesthetics can get in the way of progress, so thanks to Stanley Reed and Ivan Penn for this reporting from the New England coast: A Giant Wind Far" Organikos
A turbine blade more than 300 feet long. The $4 billion Vineyard Wind project is expected to start generating electricity by year's end. Bob O'Connor for The New York Times
The offshore energy project will have turbines taller than any building in Boston, but they will be barely visible from Martha's Vineyard.
On a chilly June day, with the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard just over the distant horizon, a low-riding, green-hulled vessel finished hammering a steel column nearly 100 feet into the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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