Plans are in the wind that would involve placing hundreds of 325-foot wind turbines, or windmills, on floating anchor points 22 miles off the Lake Michigan shoreline that couldn't be seen from land. The winds over Lake Michigan are some of the strongest and steadiest in the country, rivaling those of the upper Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.
A power consultant has calculated that an 8,806-square mile area in the middle of Lake Michigan from northern Beaver Island to southern Chicago could house 36,400 towers, spaced 2,050 feet apart, and still not be seen from the shoreline. They would generate 182,000 megawatts of power, the equivalent to 180 large nuclear power plants.
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