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Biden Administration Plans To Build Wind Farms To Power 10 Million Homes
dailycaller.com ^ | 1/12/2022 | THOMAS CATENACCI

Posted on 01/14/2022 4:55:07 AM PST by rktman

The Biden administration laid out an ambitious plan Wednesday for government-funded wind farms along the east coast, which it said would sustain millions of Americans’ energy needs.

Multiple federal agencies are planning to collaborate on the project, which will be completed by 2030, Interior Department Secretary Deb Haaland said during a renewable energy conference in Boston on Wednesday. Overall, at least 30 gigawatts will be produced by offshore wind farms by decade’s end.

“The Interior Department is laying out an ambitious roadmap as we advance the Administration’s plans to confront climate change, create good-paying jobs, and accelerate the nation’s transition to a cleaner energy future,” Haaland stated.

“Together, we will meet our clean energy goals while addressing the needs of other ocean users and potentially impacted communities,” she continued. “We have big goals to achieve a clean energy economy and Interior is meeting the moment.”

The farms would produce enough energy, Haaland added, to support more than 10 million homes by 2030, the Associated Press reported.

The U.S. wind sector currently has a total capacity of 118 gigawatts, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Roughly 3% of the nation’s total energy is produced by wind farms, additional government data showed.

“We are working to facilitate a pipeline of projects that will establish confidence for the offshore wind industry,” Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Amanda Lefton said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


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To: mn-bush-man

Well, in order to save muvver erf, sometimes some folks gotta sacrifice. Or be sacrificed.


61 posted on 01/14/2022 8:50:39 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: \/\/ayne

Can’t be recycled? What the hell are they made of?


62 posted on 01/14/2022 8:56:03 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!)
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To: rktman

Wait until they find out that is removing farm land.


63 posted on 01/14/2022 8:57:01 AM PST by pas
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To: rktman

Why not supply the home of every homeowner, who wants one, with its own vertical tree top wind turbine? That can be mounted on a treetop or a post or maybe even a housetop?
Then there are the great possibilities of supplying every home with a septic system a way to make energy or fuel out of “waste”. <shrug/possibly sarcasm/or the way of the future


64 posted on 01/14/2022 9:00:56 AM PST by This I Wonder32460 (Communism = Greedy Desire to Steal from Others, rather than Earn One's Own.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Seems like every half-a green plan pollutes more than the status quo. Government sponsored and subsidized climate change, green energy, et al, all seem like form of embezzlement... <shrug-jmo


65 posted on 01/14/2022 9:08:46 AM PST by This I Wonder32460 (Communism = Greedy Desire to Steal from Others, rather than Earn One's Own.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

John F’n Kerry has been fighting against it tooth and nail for years


66 posted on 01/14/2022 9:11:11 AM PST by shotgun
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To: rktman

I was just thinking, I know where there is a lot of wind, though some call it hot air. The biggest breezes blowing are in Washington DC. Why not put bladed windmills all over the District of Columbia to power the electricity of all the Federal buildings? Then Congress could declare itself as self-sufficient. <smirk/sarcasm


67 posted on 01/14/2022 9:15:10 AM PST by This I Wonder32460 (Communism = Greedy Desire to Steal from Others, rather than Earn One's Own.)
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To: rktman; All
Wind farms is a state power issue imo.

The problems is, as a consequence of state revenues that always seem to fall short because of unconstitutional federal taxes, we have the following scenario.

Constitutionally low-information state lawmakers who evidently don't have a grip on the federal government's constitutionally limited powers any more than the voters who elected them do, have to do the following. They have to regularly beg the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds to return state revenues that they stole from the states so that the states who want to experiment with wind power for example, can do so.

The states typically "pay" for the return of their revenues, politically regarded as “federal” funding, in the form of reluctant compliance with unconstitutional federal dictates, indoctrination of school children to be entitlement-minded, Democratic supporters for example.

Corrections, insights welcome.

The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big, alleged election-stealing, Democratic Party-pirated federal and state governments, allegedly manufacturing crises to oppress everybody under their boots...

Consider that the states effectively have "veto power" over continued unpopular, unconstitutional actions of the feds.

More specifically, all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.

Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.

Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (16&17A), little or no discussion required imo.

In fact, I challenge the states to ram the repeal amendment for 16&17A through the ratification process faster than Nancy Pelosi irresponsibly rammed unconstitutional Obamacare through the House. /semi-sarc

Again, insights welcome.

68 posted on 01/14/2022 9:24:26 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: FlingWingFlyer

How will these windmills power all those electric cars the knuckleheads will force on people? Can these great structures power all these homes and cars?

How much environmental damage to wildlife and forests?

Stupid rusty old structures that will remain on all that land as a giant monument to the RAT Party idiocy.

They can’t get their ignorant Marxist crap going so they decide to destroy the land for an outdated folly.


69 posted on 01/14/2022 9:25:47 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: sevinufnine

:(


70 posted on 01/14/2022 9:29:35 AM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Linky thing to article about recycling them and the issues therein:

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/end-wind-power-waste-vestas-unveils-blade-recycling-technology-2021-05-17/


71 posted on 01/14/2022 9:30:20 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Amendment10

IIRC without fed subsidies (OUR MONEY), none of these projects could survive financially. Correct as needed.


72 posted on 01/14/2022 9:32:14 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

Renewable energy until you have to replace it in 5-10 years

Biden’s head is so far up his ass he is choking to death


73 posted on 01/14/2022 10:41:41 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: rktman

I already know what Xiden’s idea of a wind farm is, ask the Duchess Camilla.


74 posted on 01/14/2022 11:14:26 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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To: Eleutheria5

“Burning wood is solar and wind power. The trees grew thanks to the sun and the wind that brought the rains. So when you chop a tree down or pick up the wind-fallen branches, you are using renewable energy. OK? So take your wind farms and stick ‘em where the birds won’t get chopped to bits.”

That is true but burning wood produces carbon dioxide by magic and a small increase in carbon dioxide will kill everyone on the planet and cause the ice to melt in your refrigerator and even on the equator so the oceans will be twelve and 37/41 miles deeper. Don’t you understand climate SCIENCE?


75 posted on 01/14/2022 11:54:08 AM PST by RipSawyer (Sarcasm is now mandatory)
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To: rktman

What happens when we no longer have off-shore winds because of — you know — climate change?


76 posted on 01/14/2022 12:04:07 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: rktman
Overall, at least 30 gigawatts will be produced by offshore wind farms by decade’s end.

Gee that's a lot of power. Hmmm... wonder who'll pay for that?

Answer: Us taxpayers, that's who.

Biden continues to spend OUR money like there's no tomorrow

I wonder if he can be impeached for that?

Thank you Daily Caller for presenting the other side to this argument consisting of three paragraphs at the end of the article.

77 posted on 01/14/2022 3:09:56 PM PST by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: rktman

“...Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!
Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own...”

(Marilyn Bergman/Michel Legrand)


78 posted on 01/14/2022 3:15:10 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: rktman

What is BOEM????


79 posted on 01/14/2022 3:49:09 PM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: rktman

Nice birds you have there, East Coast. Would be terrible if something were to happen to them.


80 posted on 01/14/2022 4:55:13 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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