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Dutch Moving Wind Turbines Offshore - by Toby Stirling
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- For centuries, Dutch windmills have pumped water out of the low-lying country, and old-fashioned wooden mills are as closely linked with the Netherlands' international image as its dikes and bikes. But in the face of a large and growing lobby against the windmill's modern electricity-generating counterpart _ the wind turbine _ the country has started moving them offshore and out of sight.
The Egmond aan Zee wind farm, the first major offshore Dutch project, is nearing completion 8 miles from Haarlem and is scheduled to go on line this fall. It has 36 turbines, each with arms reaching higher than a football field, capable of producing a combined 108 megawatts an hour _ enough to power roughly 100,000 households. It's the first in a flood of similar-sized offshore projects proposed for Britain, Ireland, France, and Germany.n the Netherlands, which targets having 9 percent of its electricity generated from renewable sources by 2010, the need to move offshore is growing more urgent due to the increasing number of wind turbine critics.Comment by EU-Digest:" do the environmental critics prefer to stay dependent on imported fossil fuels?"
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