I am a retired professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia. My family has been going to Long Beach Island, specifically Harvey Cedars, for the last 50 years. So when dead whales started washing ashore, this got my attention focused on the issue of offshore wind farms.

There recently has been a great deal of misinformation and outright lies concerning the benefits of and needs for wind turbines by the atmospheric activists, politicians and wind turbine…