Take your favorite vacation spot or the place you live in and put a pig farm next to it, or one of these wind farms in front of it.
Make sense now?
There are exceptions, though. They've placed wind generators at one end of Lake Arenal in Costa Rica, and it looks pretty damn cool against the background there, if you ask me. I can't find any of my personal pics of the wind farm right now, but there's a few shots of it
here .
Again, knowing the area around Cape Cod, it just doesn't fit in with the environment. It's an entirely emotional argument, I'll agree, but I can understand the aggrivation that something like this is causing.
I really don't think it's a political issue (amazing, that statement coming from me). I think it's an issue where the residents simply don't want something like this marring the ocean skyline permanently.
The cable issue has to be BS. We're talking about nothing more than MAYBE 100-150ft. deep at max, if there doing this at the deep spots in the Cape (I wouldn't imagine them trying to sink pylons much deeper, though I'm no marine engineer). I can't count the number of companies that have got copper of fiber optic lines running in thousands of feet of water that are pretty much maintenance-free.
On average, the Cape just isn't that deep.
More power to Denmark (no pun intended). They don't have 1/50th of the waterfront that the US does, so they were probably extremely limited in terms of placement.
There has to be other places these can go and not cause as much of a ruckus.
I for one would hate to return to the Cape and see these things there. They just don't fit in with the scenery.
