Posted on 04/10/2021 1:13:41 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
President Biden’s offshore-wind scheme will be terrible for consumers. If those 30,000 megawatts of capacity get built — which, given the history of scuttled projects like Cape Wind, is far from a sure thing — that offshore juice will cost ratepayers billions of dollars more per year than if that same power were produced from onshore natural-gas plants or advanced nuclear reactors.
Of course, offshore wind will create an armada of problems that go well beyond the price of power. As Rockefeller University environmental expert Jesse Ausubel told me recently, it will require “massive industrialization” of the oceans. Indeed, building 30,000 megawatts of capacity will require anchoring thousands of offshore platforms along our coasts that could pose significant threats to navigation, marine mammals and fisheries.
...nearly double the cost of generating that same amount of energy with an advanced nuclear reactor ($63) and more than three times the projected cost of producing it with natural gas ($37).
A final point: Foreign corporations will be among the biggest beneficiaries of those subsidies. Britain’s BP, Norway’s Equinor and Denmark’s Ørsted are developing a total of some 6.2 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity in US waters.
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We have windmills in my town.. they use more energy (gas , coal ) to build, ship and place than they will ever “save” ..this is just a left wing hoax
Ohhh and the fiberglass blades will never disintegrate so storring used ones will be a huge issue
Sorry, but wind power is not free, By taking energy directly from the climate you’re probably changing the climate more than the effect of indirectly burning a fossil fuel to produce the same amount of electricity.
Anyone not quite wealthy + already connected is scheduled to be crushed like a bug. This is intended.
The “poor” will still vote for Santa Claus. And they’ll make some stupid program where there is a “carbon reinvestment adjustment” fee to give the “poor” free wind energy.
They desperately need electric in Ca. for their electric cars, so they should built thousands of them right on the beaches. They could produce millions of mega-watts of power and fan the beach goers at the same time. The same would be true off Marthas Vineyard except a byproduct would be to power those elite sail boats.
How many of those offshore windmills would survive a hurricane? Imagine if a Cat5 hurricane swept up the coast taking out potentially hundreds of windmills. We would have catastrophic blackouts covering much of the country
” so they should built thousands of them right on the beaches.”
And put solar cells over the beach between the windmills and the homeless can live underneath them.
But the homeless might sue because of the windmill noise?
The worst hurricane on record for NYC was a Cat3 in 1938.
The design survival limit for current wind turbines is claimed to be Cat3.
A fun topic!
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/offshore-wind-turbines-cant-handle-toughest-hurricanes
recommended she use a computer simulation driven by hurricane data from the last 15 years. Bryan used this high-resolution model to recreate the worst of the worst — a category-5 hurricane eyewall, where winds can exceed 220 miles per hour — to see how wind turbines would hold up. The team also investigated how wind characteristics, such as changes in direction and turbulence, might affect turbines.
Researchers found the extreme wind speeds they modeled would cause structural damage to wind turbines and possible failure of turbine parts. When wind speeds from typhoon Usagi in southern China exceeded turbine specifications in 2013, for instance, blades bent and towers toppled over.
All part of the plan.
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