This article is about the world's largest offshore wind farm, found in the UK. The project is called London Array and the turbines are located by the capital. The farm consists of a whopping 175 giant turbines that generate enough power for 500,000 homes. Meanwhile, here in the US we don't have any offshore wind farms. Sure, they're three times more expensive to build offshore, but we need to be looking at the big pictures and the future of our environment; it's time for us to catch up. Gov. Chris Christie here in Jersey would like to see one by 2020. We'll see if this is an achievable goal, but it would truly be wonderful if we could pull it together, not only to keep up with Europe, but to keep up with the constant need for renewable energy that is holding our planet together!
This article interested me because it seems to be a constant theme of the US lacking behind on so many important innovative changes, and I feel it always seem,s we have too much pride to admit when someone else thought of a good idea and that it's about time we learn from them! I'll be impressed if we start to make some of the positive environmental changes we keep reading about that are happening elsewhere-possibly starting with a wind farm right here in NJ!
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