“Could be”
More expensive energy will do the trick I’m sure.
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.
The issue arises mainly because numerous New England states have refused to approve additional natural gas pipelines into or through their state.
Bird zappers and thousands of gallons of lubricating oil in coastal waters is a ‘solution’… to a problem RATS created?
Sorry.
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.
Until the first hurricane hits
Tin Foil Hat Dreamers .
The Sea and the wind are insurmountable adversaries. One Cat 2 hurricane and its all over.
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.
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.
When I read this, I knew this was a writer with an agenda, so I quit reading.
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.
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.
The service workers are blue collar! The high paying wine & cheese jobs will Be back in Corp headquarters 😂
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?
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?
“My Momma always used to say, ‘Stupid is as stupid does...”
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.