Posted on 11/24/2014 11:42:10 AM PST by thackney
“I don’t see this as worse than an oil platform. I’m in favor of those.”
Well, if you can throw a directional drilling rig in there and make it look like a windmill, you might have an opportunity to make a net positive energy impact.
This is outside state control, 12 miles and farther offshore.
Beam me up Scotty no intelligent life anywhere...
Then it must have been on the Kennedy side until they were told to move it or lose it.
It starts at 12 miles then later on moves closer to shore. Camel nose in tent.
Nope. The fed limit is at 12 miles, no closer. It goes out to ~40 miles.
Different Projects. The other one that Kennedy hated is still in play. That one is in State Waters. This is for Federal Waters farther away.
Offshore wind is expensive and has never made money, even in Europe.
The maintenance is a nightmare.
We tried this off the coast of DE in one the most consistently windy spots on the planet 7 miles offshore.
The numbers did not work.
Also, without a way to store the energy to release it to the grid on a steady basis, the vagaries of output play havoc on the grid operators.
You still need back-up power sources.
Agreed. Wind is essentially fuel savings for Natural Gas Turbines. You still need to build the load capacity.
That won’t work now. Since Kennedy is dead then where will all the hot air come from to spin the windmill blades?
Could be a bonanza for scrap metal pirates.
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