Required Reading From Meghan Lapp: The Wind for Offshore Wind Projects Doesn’t Matter
The emperor has no clothes. It’s all a façade.
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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.
Florida couple behind famed Christmas light display home ‘squatted’ in residence for years
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Squatting around the Christmas tree!
A Florida couple that became infamous for decorating their home with outlandish holiday lights and props befit for the North Pole allegedly lived illegally at the residence, once owned by a Miami Dolphin player.
Mark and Kathy Hyatt “squatted” inside the upscale Plantation, Florida neighborhood where they transformed every year into the “Hyatt Extreme Christmas” house for 15 years without paying, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Broward County officials seek $34,724 in back taxes from the property after a team of property appraiser detectives investigated the family for seven months, interviewing neighbors and uncovering apparent fake deeds used by the Hyatts.
The Hyatt family was granted a homestead exemption the county said should never have been granted because they were not the rightful owners of the house.
.....The extravagant Christmas display was last lit up in 2017 as Mark and Kathy Hyatt divorced.
While in divorce court arranging for child support and alimony, Kathy Hyatt was asked to sign the deed to the estate when she revealed they had never owned the property and the deed was fake.
Mark Hyatt died three years later at the age of 56.
.....The Hyatts had come to reside in the contested home after a private investor bought out $50,000 of the home’s original mortgage, changed the locks and planned to flip the home after its original owner former Miami Dolphin Brett Perriman failed to pay off his $400,000 mortgage and faced foreclosure in 2004.
The investors were given a quit-claim deed to the property instead of an assignment of mortgage, according to the paper.
At the time, the couple was looking for a place to live in Florida when they came upon the Plantation Acres home that looked abandoned and were told that the original owners had moved to Georgia.
Mark Hyatt, a then mortgage officer discovered the Perriman didn’t have a valid deed and accused the investor of squatting, even going as far as calling the police.
Hyatt then created a fake deed of the property before breaking into the home and changing the locks, Kathy Hyatt said during an August deposition, according to the Sun Sentinel.
The couple found their way into the home and threw out everything the investors had inside so the investor “could not come back and say that he did have possession before we arrived.”
“Well, we broke in,” Kathy Hyatt told investigators. “I’ve never done that before in my life. We never paid any money to occupy. We were squatters.”
In 2014, the house’s decorations became a national hit, as the city of Plantation sued Hyatt deeming the popularity of the lights would cause an accident due to the amount of traffic it generated.
In 2017, Mark Hyatt unseated an incumbent city council member, only weeks after he declared victory over the city hall during the legal battles.
The city had spent about $427,000 in legal bills fighting the case, which Hyatt called an example of fiscal mismanagement during his campaign, the Sun Sentinel reported at the time.
The house is currently listed on Google Maps as a real estate agency run by Kathy Hyatt.
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