PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 9, 2021
I recall during the Baldacci administration attending a conference on the potential of generating our electricity using the wind off our shore. Wind maps llustrated that the wind off our coast was sufficient to generate all the electricity we might ever need plus a surplus to meet a major portion of the Boston need. Wow, I said to myself, we could be energy self-sufficient, and as a social worker in charge of a large organization responsible for a major welfare program, energy self sufficiency would be to the advantage of everyone. That didn’t happen. Probably because the benefits of such wind falls go to the elite of a community. But the wind still blows as strongly and consistently from two miles off the coast as it does at 40 miles so we won’t need floating platforms any more now than we did 20 years ago. Timing is relevant. ~ James Tierney, Brownfield