BBC....

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has approved controversial plans for the country's first offshore wind farm to operate off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

"This project fits with the tradition of sustainable development in the area," he told reporters in Boston.

State Governor Deval Patrick has argued the farm is key to local efforts to increase the use of renewable energy.

But the late Senator Edward Kennedy strongly opposed the idea, which some fear would spoil the seascape.

One of the many things that are impossible is for me to read that report and not think of this picture by the local artist Jed Dunkerley:
It's not exactly the same thing—one farm makes wind, the other catches it—but at the core of both is the same futuristic spirit.