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The First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Could Be a Lifeline for Struggling New England Cities
Time Magazine ^ | NOVEMBER 29, 2021 | ALEJANDRO DE LA GARZA-- MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MASS.

Posted on 01/21/2022 6:35:00 AM PST by dennisw

As many of New England’s industrial cities fell into decline in recent decades, the wealthier residents of Martha’s Vineyard, a regional center of affluence and privilege, have gotten richer, building and rebuilding beachfront megamansions. But their good fortune has hardly benefited everyone on the island, where economic inequality has run rampant.

For Michael Friedman, a 55-year-old IT engineer, rising prices driven by rich residents’ expanding wealth have made it harder to stay and raise his family on the tree-covered Massachusetts island where he grew up. “What can you say?” he says, driving past the Obama family’s Vineyard property in late October. “We’ll try to make a go of it.”

Now, 15 miles off the island’s coast, a new green-energy project is getting under way that many hope will begin to spread the wealth. In a matter of months, workers will begin erecting 837-ft.-tall wind turbines for Vineyard Wind, the country’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm.

When fully operational, the plant will generate 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes. More than a dozen other East Coast offshore wind projects are awaiting government approval, and the plans portend an entirely new clean-energy industry—with thousands of new, high-paying jobs to go along with it.

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1 posted on 01/21/2022 6:35:00 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

“Could be”

More expensive energy will do the trick I’m sure.


2 posted on 01/21/2022 6:38:02 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: dennisw

I know one thing that will be renewable every 20 years. The electricity generators inside. The salt air will degrade them quickly. Other parts too. Salt air being so corrosive.

This article says Europe has lots of offshore wind farms. Some young Americans are being sent to Denmark to get instruction on offshore wind farms and their machinery. There are community colleges in New England doing the same.


3 posted on 01/21/2022 6:39:52 AM PST by dennisw
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The issue arises mainly because numerous New England states have refused to approve additional natural gas pipelines into or through their state.


4 posted on 01/21/2022 6:40:17 AM PST by Wuli
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To: dennisw

Bird zappers and thousands of gallons of lubricating oil in coastal waters is a ‘solution’… to a problem RATS created?


5 posted on 01/21/2022 6:40:33 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: dennisw
Offshore wind farms are NOT going to save the economy.
Nor the earth.
Nope

Sorry.

6 posted on 01/21/2022 6:40:51 AM PST by GaltAdonis (As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. Abe Lincoln)
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To: dennisw

No.
Businesses were legislated, regulated and then taxed out of state or out of business.

The 75k homes (20 yrs ago) have now been assessed at 450K and the real estate tax bill is far in excess of the mortgage.

It’s getting to be either you are rich and can afford Mass. Or you are poor and the gov pays your bills.


7 posted on 01/21/2022 6:41:30 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: alternatives?

These offshore wind power projects must be heavily subsidized by the Federales, and even more so now that senile Joe is El Presidente. This is not mentioned in this Tim Magazine article.


8 posted on 01/21/2022 6:42:54 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

Until the first hurricane hits


9 posted on 01/21/2022 6:44:55 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: dennisw
When fully operational, the plant will generate 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes. More than a dozen other East Coast offshore wind projects are awaiting government approval, and the plans portend an entirely new clean-energy industry>>>>>>

Tin Foil Hat Dreamers .

The Sea and the wind are insurmountable adversaries. One Cat 2 hurricane and its all over.


10 posted on 01/21/2022 6:45:23 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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The likelihood of this project being successful is inversely proportional to the amount of government money being used to finance it. If were economically viable on its own, private money would build and operate it. Otherwise it will be just another feel good boondoggle that squanders tax dollars that were extracted from productive people.


11 posted on 01/21/2022 6:46:23 AM PST by allendale
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I support this only if they put on a trial windmill right on Obama’s beach for a few years to see how it works.


12 posted on 01/21/2022 6:47:38 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: dennisw
But their good fortune has hardly benefited everyone on the island, where economic inequality has run rampant. For Michael Friedman, a 55-year-old IT engineer, rising prices driven by rich residents’ expanding wealth have made it harder to stay and raise his family on the tree-covered Massachusetts island where he grew up.

When I read this, I knew this was a writer with an agenda, so I quit reading.

13 posted on 01/21/2022 6:49:03 AM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: dennisw

This is like bad science fiction. It’s as if Time and Omni magazines kind of merged.

What a beautiful world this will be;
What a glorious time to be free.

And Spandex jackets, one for everyone.


14 posted on 01/21/2022 6:49:19 AM PST by bakeneko
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To: allendale

Those wind farms. How many of you drive-byers see all the propellers turning? Just asking.


15 posted on 01/21/2022 6:50:26 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: dennisw
This article says Europe has lots of offshore wind farms.

That is certainly true. I was in the Netherlands near the ocean a few years ago, and the horizon was blade-to-blade windmills.

16 posted on 01/21/2022 6:51:07 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (FJB/LGB (Let's Go, Brandon!))
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…the plans portend an entirely new clean-energy industry—with thousands of new, high-paying jobs to go along with it.

Written by an ignorant millennial “journalist” who flunked high school physics and has zero knowledge of power systems. Just like every politician who believes in this fantasy.

Just wait until their beautiful ocean vistas are gone for good. Then they will all sing a different tune.

17 posted on 01/21/2022 6:51:21 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: Candor7

Cat 1 would likely be enough !


18 posted on 01/21/2022 6:51:41 AM PST by Reily
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To: dennisw

The service workers are blue collar! The high paying wine & cheese jobs will Be back in Corp headquarters 😂


19 posted on 01/21/2022 6:53:02 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

When I drive on I68 through Cumberland Maryland I count about 13-15 windmills. In 10+ years I’ve never seen any more then 3 to 5 mills with blades turning. The rest I guess are resting.

But the developers are laughing all the way to the bank with their subsidies!


20 posted on 01/21/2022 6:56:43 AM PST by Reily
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