Posted on 11/21/2022 6:51:17 AM PST by rktman
President Joe Biden, fresh from a surprisingly good November election for his fellow Democrats, has redoubled his commitment to rid the world of natural fuels (oil, gas, coal) and impose an all-electric universe powered in large part by offshore wind farms.
To that end, Biden recently announced massive wind lease areas offshore from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Galveston, Texas. One is a 188,023-acre tract located 56 miles offshore from Lake Charles; the other is a 508,265-acre tract 24 nautical miles offshore from Galveston. While Louisiana’s Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards is ebullient about the economic prospects for offshore wind, his Texas counterparts are not.
Two years ago, at the inaugural meeting of his Climate Initiatives Task Force, Edwards had announced a major collaboration with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to establish a task force to build a blueprint for renewable energy production in the Gulf of Mexico.
Edwards was buoyed by the observation from Office of Coastal Activities Deputy Director Harry Vorhoff that, “Renewable energy like offshore wind can help the state cut its emissions and do its part in avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.” As the new leases were announced, Edwards boasted that Louisiana lift-boat operators helped develop the nation’s first commercial offshore wind farm in Rhode Island. That experience, he mused, bodes well for Louisiana.
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Lotta hurricanes in the area, joe. Whaddya gonna do when the big winds come? Your stupid windmills will be lying at the bottom of the sea.
But as soon as they put up the wind farms, climate change ends so no more storms. /s
The Leftists in general & Climate Change cultists have ZERO common sense. ZERO.
Imagine the environmental bureaucratic red tape to put those windmills on the sea floor. “What about the sea anemones? Who will count them?”
😎👍 I recall reading that the 30 million acres would supply power (once in a while) to 11 million homes when/if finished. So that’s like over 2 acres per home. Hmmmmmm! Seems a little excessive to me.
Ebullient was one of the pangrams in yesterday’s Spelling Bee puzzle. The other was bulletin.
Hurricanes will twist those things up like pretzels.
Also, Texas may not want to enter into an agreement with FedGov for our energy. I’m far from an expert in this topic, but understand we generate our own energy, and export some to other States and Mexico.
Apparently the bureau of ocean control(?) already got an EIS done and everything is just fine and dandy. Oh, otay then.
Bidedn doesn’t care. The whole wind/solar farm scam is not about actually building the things, or generating power. It about having a bunch of entities that can suck up investor cash and tax credits and make Democrap donors rich.
The first MINOR CAT-1 hurricane to come along will destroy them all.....................
Cat 1 hurricane will put an end to this nonsense.
5.56mm
We have a company in my town that put in some windmills to power his company. They were heavily subsidized. The company got lots of press about being a green company.
After a few years of sporadic operation the blades just stopped turning and haven’t since. The maintenance costs are not subsidized and the owner of the company can’t afford to fix them so they sit. The can’t even afford to take them down.
And if they do take them down, the blades are non-biodegradable. There is no good use for them. They are big, huge pollutants.
But reusable in some fashion:
But I still dislike them for obstructing my “view shed”. 😁👍
Maintenance will be a nightmare. Within 5 years none of them will be running if the storms don’t get them first. Plus they leak a lot of $800/gallon oil (ask the landowners around them). The offshore oil producers watch for oil spots and rush to fix them (I’ve been offshore and know this). Will the wind operators face heavy fines? Doubt it
For when you have the time...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/09/04/north-sea-wind-offensive-plagued-by-problems/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dutch-wind-idUSTRE7AF1JM20111116 .... Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour — some 4.5 billion euros last year. All about tax breaks and subsidies that are given to the companies and the working stiffs pay.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2018/03/15/the-problems-with-wind-farms-are-real/
https://splash247.com/turbine-stress-issues-bring-merkur-offshore-wind-farm-offline/
https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-wind-farm-sees-blades-bolts-fly-off-as-failures-mount-report
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/blade-tumbles-off-wind-turbine-in-gloucester/2794638/
Everything about “renewable energy” systems and EVs is nothing more than Solyndra on steroids. Taxpayer money fronting these investments, the companies walk away from that without any liability and nothing out of their pockets.
Without trying to spark another EV-car thread of folks saying how much they suck and 2 or 3 folks saying they’re going to save the world, we just acknowledge that they don’t perform as advertised/marketed. Are they ‘useful’ for some folks that don’t drive far and have access to chargers? Sure. Who the EFF cares.
But now we’re venturing into EV planes. So vehicles that...ain’t all that...on a paved road are now going to be flying in the air with much more environmental stresses that already have a negative effect on the ground based car.
My point....all of these companies are making bank off the taxpayers.
Promising unicorns, rainbows and lollipops and delivering a handful of sh*t. Kemp is smiling that a EV plane company from, guess....California...is setting up shop in Covington, Ga. 1000 jobs, y’all. Sure. And the Georgia taxpayer is footing the bill for a POS.
Amazing how expensive “free” stuff is. 🤔😁👍
This is good news. I like that the same process used for the old blades can be used to recycle fiberglass car bumpers and old boats.
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