Cape Cod Crusader

Race against the Wind

As our scientists continue to search for alternative ways to harness energy, world leaders persist in the fight for oil in the middle east.  If we could find other ways to supply our depleting energy resource, there would be no wars.   Some believe a wind farm for the Cape is the answer.  There is a place for everything, even wind farms. Nantucket Sound is not one of them.

Just like the stock market, you don't put all your money into one stock.  The same applies to the way we use products for energy. We must diversify our selection  as we have seen what happens when we are forced to rely on just one, we run the risk of losing it all.  

One source that has been used in Iceland is "geo-thermal energy", and has proven successful.  The biggest challenge for this resource is location. Not all areas on the planet can tap into geo-thermal energy.    

While I lived on the Cape, I became interested in the controversy over the proposed Wind Farm of Nantucket Sound.  Ned Sonntag, illustrator extraordinaire visually expressed what I could not put into words.  I believe a Wind Farm in Nantucket Sound would be a disaster to the island.   Just in the way over development of the land has ruined the island, so would a windfarm.  It won't be enough, not in the long run.  I believe geo-thermal is the way to go, and other ways that will not create problems for existing natural resources.  If we can tap into the earth's core, safely and economically, without disturbing what nature has bestowed, then why not?

It's obvious we have to come up with other forms of energy.  One is not enough. Hopefully, our leaders and scientists will help us discover sucessful alternatives so we won't have to rely on oil as our main source.  Maybe then we can live in peace among nations.

More information available from MIT here,  IcelandAdventure here and the Union of Concerned Scientists here.

Click on Ned Sonntag's War of the Winds above or here to see a larger image.