USA Alteranative energy: Block Island embracing offshore wind farm plan - by Bina Venkataraman
The wind whips an American flag towering over the palatial lawn that carpets this hilltop. A gust topples a paper coffee cup, half-full, onto a Victorian patio chair on the veranda of the island's oldest hotel. "If we did have wind turbines, they would be smokin'," said Dave Houseman, general manager of the 19th-century Spring House Hotel, looking out at the breakers below. "Chances are you wouldn't even see them. But I think if you did, it's something you could get used to." His remark reflects a widely held sentiment here since a developer recently proposed erecting a $1.5 billion wind farm in the waters off this isolated island. The company has proposed building more than 100 turbines, each one up to 240 feet tall.
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