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Required Reading From Meghan Lapp: The Wind for Offshore Wind Projects Doesn’t Matter
The emperor has no clothes. It’s all a façade.
Excerpt:
Despite every governor, “expert”, and legislator for years along the Atlantic seaboard clamoring for “renewable energy” claiming that their state is the “Saudi Arabia of Wind”,[1] the fact is that the actual wind production doesn’t matter.
.....Nobody has yet calculated how many thousands of square miles would be needed to achieve all the various governmental mandates/goals, but millions of acres have already been leased and continue to be leased. If you actually had to factor power output and wind wake effect into the equation, say goodbye to the entire U.S. Atlantic.
The point of all this is- the wind doesn’t matter because it CAN’T matter. If the states and feds and developers actually had to be accountable for the fact that the projects don’t work because the wind doesn’t always blow or that the more they build the less they produce- offshore wind wouldn’t get built.
Bottom line is- offshore wind doesn’t work. It’s not designed to work, or to be economically feasible in real life. It’s a giant Ponzi scheme wholly dependent on government subsidies and political “climate change” brownie points.
The idea is- build and get massive subsidies. Then sell off the wind farms via “farmdowns” and build again to get more subsidies. When all these subsidies aren’t enough, we see the likes of what happened recently with Sunrise Wind, Empire Wind, and Beacon Wind asking for a revision of their PPAs,[37] multiple developers complaining that the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits- which can allow for up to 50% of the capital cost of a wind project to be covered by investable tax credits from the U.S. government (above the standard 30% ITC)-[38] aren’t enough, and the governors with their hands out to Washington begging for more support to make their pet projects happen.[39]
But when you don’t have an actual product that works, and therefore has intrinsic value, to sell, eventually the road ends.
The emperor has no clothes. It’s all a façade.
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Meghan Lapp is to testify before Congress on this issue. Nothing will happen because all in the swamp are in on the wind energy scam and getting kickbacks IMO.