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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I wonder if Alejandro has seen one of those turbine blades as long as a football field that will need to be buried somewhere eventually?
Where we get enough sun to use solar -- a much more realistic energy source than wind. And decentralized (meaning I put solar onto my house with my money and configured for my power usage under my weather conditions) it's way more efficient than the Dims' version of "green" energy. They try to force it and try to make it one-size-fits-all only for it to be one-size-harms-everybody-but-their-cronies. My solar system is quite efficient and will pay for itself in the 10th year (based on how the first year did for me). But that's in large part because I live in Alabama where I get plenty of sun.
“It’s getting to be either you are rich and can afford Mass. “
Sounds like a scheme to keep out the underclass.
You are right. Not one wind generator will be left standing. See the history for hurricans off Nantucket:
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/the-worst-massachusetts-hurricanes-of-the-20th-century
They would be pi$$ing away their investment.
They need to build compact nuclear generating stations, which would truly be a wise investment.
Surviving in Your Doomsday Bunker with Portable Nuclear Power to Spare
http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2012/05/surviving-in-your-doomsday-bunker-with.html
I can see the Tehachapi Wind farm from the top of my mountain, and most of them are NEVER turning. The only way to make thisnew wind farm work off Marthas Vineyard would be to MANDATE ALL HOMES on Marthas Vineyard use 100% renewable Clean Energy
rising prices driven by rich residents’ expanding wealth
After that, there wasn’t any reason to read further...
Martha’s Vineyard.......weren’t there some proposed off shore wind farms once there that the Kennedy Klan blocked because it would spoil the ocean view?
“ I can see the Tehachapi Wind farm from the top of my mountain,”
Tehachapi to Tonapah?
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Natural gas is CLEAN ENERGY.
“My Momma always used to say, ‘Stupid is as stupid does...”
Has anyone ever calculated the amount fed gov exaggerates it’s numbers.
If I had to guess I’d say about 5 to 10 times.
the “good fortune” is that OTHERS will be taxed
to pay for the failure.
they never economically work,
and here there is salt water, too.
Poor people contribute so much to a community.
We would hardly “need” democrats if they didn’t exploit the poor and down trodden...that they mostly created.
My gosh, what idiocy!
That is certainly true. I was in the Netherlands near the ocean a few years ago, and the horizon was blade-to-blade windmills. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
True, but they are not located in hurricane ally like Nantucket is.
They only started to struggle when, you guessed it, they voted for the resident and kamalatoe!
I’m all for natural gas but have no problem with wind or solar or other renewables.
Ever hear of a ship? Like these turbines, they’re designed to operate reliably in saltwater environments.
Offshore wind is great because the wind resource is strong, no farmland is lost, and since population is high along the coast the energy can be more economically delivered to users than when new costly transmission lines are required.
It also locates turbines in the “backyard” of liberal coastal city dwellers, making them aware of the tradeoffs involved with any form of power veneration facility. Every form of generation has pros and cons.
“If were economically viable on its own, private money would build and operate it.”
The US gov’t subsidizes nearly every large corporation.
The govt is giving $52 Billion, not million, billion to US chip manufacturers to set up and build in the US.
Now, I would think chip production and demand is pretty high profit and don’t need the $52 billion but here ya go.
One time construction of wind farms does not replace long term manufacturing jobs. Buying the components for those wind farms from China does not replace long term manufacturing jobs. Sending more money to government so the wind farms can be subsidized does not help anyone. Choosing wind farms over natural gas and coal increases everyone’s electric bills. Just wait for a Nor’easter to hit those wind farms when many people rely on their power. It won’t be pretty.
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