Wind and Water

While browsing through Red Green And Blue (one of my favorite sources for both political and environmental news) today, I found a couple day old article detailing a federal report claiming that wind power stations put in shallow seas could provide somewhere around 20% of the power demanded by coastal states. America has a lot of coastal states that use an unimaginable amount of power (Think LA). The study focused on the Atlantic ocean, but this marks a great step toward greater implementation of wind power in every coastal state, including Oregon! It gets better though, Red Green And Blue ran a follow up story three days later reporting that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Interior Department (who produced the aforementioned study) are actually making agreements for regulations on implementing this sea based wind farm. Regulation seems to me the first step a bureaucracy must take, simply by its very nature, towards actually accomplishing anything. This is good news indeed. A heartfelt thank you to Timothy B. Hurst for writing both articles, and making my day.