BY TONY BARTELME
The Post and Courier
Local News
Top Local Story - Turbines 8 miles offshore would be difficult to see
Posted:
11/06/2009 11:00 PM
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Large wind turbines would be clearly visible two miles off the Carolina coast but would all but disappear into the haze eight miles out to sea, a new photo simulation shows.
Clemson's South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies created the simulation as part of Santee Cooper's research into the viability of building a wind farm off the Grand Strand.
The visual impact of the wind turbines has been a major hurdle for some projects in the United States and Europe.
"We think it's important to give people an idea of what it looks like," said Marc Tye, Santee Cooper's vice president of conservation and renewable energy. "We want people to form opinions based on the facts."
Earlier this summer, Santee Cooper and Coastal Carolina University placed two strings of buoys off the Grand Strand to measure winds.
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