Is There Really Enough Offshore Wind Power To Replace Coal?

Sure … If you can imagine building 3,540 new East Coast offshore wind farms the size of the world’s largest project.

Don’t expect wind power to replace coal as the nation’s main source of electric power, whatever Obama’s interior secretary said.

Interior Secretary Salazar said that the amount of “developable” wind power off the East Coast could produce more energy than all the coal-fired electric plants in the U.S., and that wind’s potential to replace most of our coal power “is a very real possibility.” We find his claims to be wildly optimistic, to say the least.

It’s true that government studies show there’s enough offshore wind to generate far more than coal plans currently do