8/24/2009 By Tony Bartelme, The Post and Courier CHARLESTON, S.C.: South Carolina's entry into the high-stakes race to build an offshore wind farm began quietly this year when crews placed two strings of yellow buoys off the Grand Strand. Packed with weather instruments, these buoys will measure wind speeds to identify a sweet spot, a place close enough to shore so crews can more easily build and maintain a wind farm, but far enough into a powerful belt of winds that regularly blows off the...
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