Offshore wind turbines proposed

King pushes for offshore wind turbines | Portland Press Herald:

"King said Tuesday that the state should launch a massive research and development effort to create a $15 billion network of offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine over the next 10 years. Only something as ambitious as 1,000 turbines spinning 26 miles off the Maine coast will be able to break the state's reliance on oil and prevent an economic catastrophe, he said.

'The Gulf of Maine is the Saudi Arabia of wind,' King said. 'There is nothing I've come across that has the large potential this has We need to be thinking big about this.'

King called for the wind power equivalent of the 'Manhattan Project' during a lecture at Bowdoin College Tuesday evening, referring to the effort that produced the atomic bomb. He said such a 'wind ranch' could provide all of Maine's electricity, as well as heat for its homes and power for its cars."