Oh, I know that from a literal standpoint it's a matter of symbolism over substance, but in this case the symbolism is very important. For many people, particularly people like me whose grandparents wept and thanked God when they came up out of steerage to at long last see the Statue of Liberty, this is a powerful symbol of hope - a commodity that is short supply these days.

Now the wind power here isn't going to amount to beans, but the value in all this is that it will get the attention of far more people than all of the excellent but esoteric technical analyses that appear here on TOD.  

This is great opportunity for getting the energy problem front and center. The EROEI is this case irrelevant; the ATROAI (attention return on attention invested) is highly relevant.

This is one of the few good ideas I've seen in a long time, and I'd venture that it will have enornmous leverage in leading to all sorts of other things.

I consider myself to be about the most cynical person in the world, but I really like this one. Maybe I'm getting soft.