Notes on "As Alternative Energy Grows, NIMBY Turns Green"

A wind farm which was slated to be the first offshore wind farm in the US has been put on hold at least for now.
The wind farm project is being called Cape Wind on account of it being built off the coast of Cape Cod.
Local Native American tribes have opposed the building of the wind farm on account of the historical importance of that area off of Cape Cod.
The National Historic Register will decide within 45 days of the eleventh of November whether or not the sound will be protected or not.
The project would cost upwards of 1 billion dollars, but would be eligible for a cash subsidy and would end up consisting of about 130 wind turbines on the entire farm.
The finished project would generate 75 percent of Cape Cod's energy, and are projected to be barely noticeable.
NIMBY stands for Not in my Backyard, its used in this article as a way to emphasize that a lot of people support alternative energy sources, but as soon as they have to have the generators any where near them, they freak out. People are starting to support green energy as long as its built nowhere near them.
The article has two parts, and in the second part it states that if just two percent of the Mojave Desert was used to collect solar energy, all of the houses in California could be powered, which would cut emissions by 30 million tons a year.