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LIPA windfarm project needs closer review Dear Editor: Let's look further into the LIPA/FPL Wind Farm project. The proposed 40,443 ft. foot high pole structures support the turbine - generators and threebladed propellers are to be located three to five miles off the South Shore Beaches of Robert Moses Fire Island State Park to Jones Beach. the reinforced concrete foundations supporting these 40 towers will have to be massive and deep in the ocean bed to withstand hurricane wind forces. The power cabling connecting all of the 40 towers and brought trenched below the sea floor, and then trenched through the Amityville area to an existing LIPA electrical substation and power grid, will have to be sized to carry the maximum 140 megawatts. the material plus construction including FPL's profit on this project will be huge and should be on a competitive basis including FPL and other contractors. We have calm and less windy days in the fall and winter seasons and this will require variable electrical power regulation and control of "O" megawatts up to 140 megawatts. I believe that Dr. Matthew Cordaro's plan to repower to modernize Keyspan's existing power stations, such as Northport (4 units), Port Jefferson Unit and others will produce a constant 4,200 megawatts and at the same time reduce the pollution rate. Other possible alternatives would be to increase the Modern Combined Cycle Gas turbine Unit that can provide immediate megawatts to handle peak electrical loads. It's too bad we turned down the Nuclear Shoreham Power Plant with its 800 plus megawatt capability. The bottom line is not to alter the nice view from our beaches and interfere with our commercial and pleasure boating fishing grounds on this costly, variable megawatt project.
Gene Turner, Babylon
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