The Great Texas Wind Rush
Posted on March 9, 2007 by Matthew Solle
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One thing there is plenty of in Texas is decommissioned oil platforms. Wind Energy Systems (WEST) was set up in 2004 by Harold Schoeffler and Herman Schellstede. Schoeffler runs a Cadillac dealership and Schellstede spent four decades as an oil rig man. Their idea is to top decommissioned drilling rigs with windmills and create the first offshore wind farm 10 miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas. Hurricanes are a problem, but the rigs are being fitted with hydraulic lifts to lower the windmills. There are two other wind farm projects in the US – off New York’s Long Island and off Cape Cod – but both have run into problems. But according to Walt Musial at the National Wind Technology Center in Colorado: “They (WEST) might actually do it.”
Read John Geoghegan’s article on Wired.com
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