Power company, state study wind
By Bo Petersen
Santee Cooper and the state are back quixotically tilting at windmills, this time out to sea.
Six weather buoys and two wind gauge towers will be positioned off the coast from Georgetown and Little River starting this month, to find out how well the wind blows.
The hope is that enough wind will be found to drive turbines to make electricity, at distance and height that makes economic sense, despite the fact that similar gauges inland along the coast failed to find enough wind.
Read more in tomorrow's editions of The Post and Courier.
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scfirefly (anonymous) says...
Sigh...can't y'all just report the news and leave the literary references to real scholars? Wake up editors! Isn't there time before this goes to print?
There are foolish delusional Don Quixote like characters in the environmental cause today, but you wouldn't be talking about Santee Cooper.
March 9, 2009 at 4:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seneca264 (anonymous) says...
We have real morons in this state. Build nuclear power plants idiots and leave the windmills to Al Goraloni and gang.
March 9, 2009 at 7:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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