William Atkins
Monday, 24 November 2008 23:42
Science -
Energy
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The city council members wanted to initiate a solar energy program but land is scarce and they had no other viable place to put it. They decided to use the cemetery.
Esteve Serret, the Director of the Conste-Live Energy company (an organization that operates the cemetery and also runs a renewable energy project), states,
"The best tribute we can pay to our ancestors, whatever your religion may be, is to generate clean energy for new generations.”
There is strong debate raging around the United States and, no doubt, in other countries with respect to the location of wind farms, solar energy arrays, and other such “green” renewable energy projects.
The country’s first off-shore wind farm (
CapeWind) is being developed off of Cape Cod in the northeastern part of the United States. Its establishment has not been without fierce debate.
For instance, the Grist.org article “
The Wind and the Willful: RFK Jr. and other prominent enviros face off over Cape Cod wind farm” states,
“A long-simmering disagreement within the environmental community over a plan to build a massive wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., is now boiling over into a highly public quarrel.”
Some New Englanders don't want windmills standing off the coast of Massachusetts because it will detract from the beauty of the area. They also have other reasons, but esthetics is one prime reason.
Even stronger debate sometimes erupts when people find they will be living next to a wind generating farm or a series of solar arrays.
See page three for more of the story.
