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Tom Carper: “Several years from now, when people come to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and they look out to the east, they will see…”

On the recordOctober 28, 2009
Several years from now, when people come to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and they look out to the east, they will see something sticking up above the horizon about half the size of my thumbnail, and it will be a windmill farm generating enough electricity for about 100,000 homes, and we hope to be joined in that effort by States from like Maryland and New Jersey as well.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper discusses future wind energy developments off the Delaware coast.

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