Will offshore wind someday power the Great Lakes states? A Lake Erie project may soon find out.

If all goes as planned, a renewable energy revolution could begin in a few years with a pilot project rising just eight miles off the Cleveland's shoreline, above the waves of Lake Erie.

Six turbines — essentially huge propellers — will emerge from the water that was once so polluted it fueled America's environmental movement. They will transform wind rolling over the lake into electricity, then supply it to a network onshore.