It is a good thing that Gov. Maura Healey did not take her fellow New England governors and visiting Canadian premiers on a boat tour of Cape Cod wind farms.

The way blades from the turbines have been crashing and spewing debris around the islands, her guests might have needed to don helmets and flak jackets for protection.

It’s dangerous out there in the Vineyard Wind 1 project area, south of Nantucket, where fiberglass parts, shrapnel and other various debris has washed ashore after a turbine blade shattered.

The Eastern Canadian premiers and the governors were on hand in Boston earlier this week to attend their annual conference, this time hosted by Healey.

So, it is a good thing that Vineyard wind has halted power production pending an investigation into the broken blade.

Massachusetts doesn’t currently get any power from offshore wind anyway.

The incident, nevertheless, took no wind out of Healey’s sails — so to speak — when it comes toward making Massachusetts some sort of environmental wonderland.

“Simply put, we are going big,” Healey said upon her announcement on the eve of the conference that Massachusetts has secured the largest offshore wind energy procurement in state history.

The wind energy that will produce 2,678 megawatts of electricity is to be procured through three wind projects, South Coast Wind, New England Wind 1 and Vineyard Wind 2.

Healey said, “We’ll power 1.4 million more Massachusetts homes with clean, renewable energy, create thousands of good, union jobs, and generate billions of dollars in economic activity.”  It will also reduce the states’ carbon emissions by the equivalent of taking one million gas-powered cars off the road, she added.

“The world will look to New England for the future of clean energy,” Healey said.

Also, the three projects are required, naturally, to “to provide opportunities for diversity, equity and inclusion,” according to fellow Healey progressive Elizabeth Mahoney, commissioner of the Department of Energy Resources. Which is predictable in a progressive administration.

But in a plea for clarity, it might do the governor, who supports Kamala Harris, well to explain to people that she is talking about megawatts, and not MAGAwatts.

It would also be helpful if she explained what a megawatt is, since we are supposedly getting so many of them.

Listening to Healey talk about megawatts, though, is like listening to someone read your National Grid electric bill to you, if you can stand it. It is where you are billed for Electric Vehicle Charges. Distributed Solar Charges, Energy Efficiency Charges, Renewable Energy Charges, and other strange items.

She could explain that a megawatt “is a unit of power equal to one million watts.” It was named after18th century Scottish inventor James Watt (1736-1819), the man who invented the steam engine.

But what is a watt?  Well, she could say, “a watt is a unit of power equal to one joule per second.”

What is a joule? A joule is the unit of energy “equal to the amount of work done when a force of one newton displaces a mass through a distance of one metre in the direction  of that force.” It was named after 18th century physicist James Prescott Joule (1818-1889).

All right, then but what’s a newton? A newton, named after English mathematician and physicist Issac Newton (1643-1727), “is the force which gives a mass of 1 kilogram an acceleration of one metre per second squared.”

Now that you understand, and all the talk about megawatts, watts, joules and newtons has been cleared up, it is time to get the wind blowing and the megawatts flowing.

And you don’t have to be a politician to know which way the wind is blowing, but it helps.

Megawatts aside, though, Healey must be careful that the wind does not blow her over, like it is doing to the shattered wind turbine blades at the Cape.

Happiness, as the old saying goes, comes the way the wind blows.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

View of the broken wind turbine blade in the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Nantucket. (Courtesy of Nantucket Harbormaster)