Google Wants a Massive Wind Farm Stretching Down the East Coast

For some reason , lots of people hate tip farms — I think they ’re rather pretty!—but NIMBY is a potent , brawny force-out . So why not adhere ’em far in the blowy sea ? Trans - Elect wants to do just that , with Google cash .

The Atlantic Wind Connection is a proposed meshwork of hundreds of at - sea wind farms stretching from New Jersey to Virginia , all linked together , generate as much juice as ten filthy coal plants . Wiring that energy from sea to shore wo n’t be easy , but Google ’s already putting up dough , along with two other backers .

Trans - Elect suppose it ’ll bug out building the first part of the $ 5 billion web — from Delaware to Atlantic City — in 2013 , with the rest following in 2016 . It ’s never heady to gestate anything from those estimates , as a task of this scope is just pray for delays , but the potential is enormous — incentivizing wind power developers to fleece their turbine into Trans - Elect ’s pipe could go a longsighted way to release the style we file up in the right direction . [ PopSci ]

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