People have no idea what’s already in their backyards.
Far too many Americans suffer from chronic, irrational fear. We are a nation of pussies.
Posted on 10/05/2023 6:17:44 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Three U.S. states in New England – Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut – on Wednesday agreed to jointly procure offshore wind power as soaring interest rates and rising equipment and labor costs have made some projects uneconomic.
By joining forces, the states hope to counter the pain rippling across the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, which is expected to play a key part in decarbonizing the power sector and revitalizing domestic manufacturing.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
Hey New England get ready to pay out the green to go green.
Green = Scam
typo government:
if it moves - tax it
if it keeps moving - regulate it
if it stops moving - subsidize it
I wonder what all the dead whales think of this?
Best way to “decarbonize” the power industry?
Go nuclear. There are now plant designs available that can be installed AND OPERATIONAL, for less cost than the “green” wind power schemes. At no cost for the damage done to the shallow-water locations to both aquatic life, and pleasure boating. Not to mention the termination of a danger to migratory birds.
But, priorities, man. Make the cost of electricity so costly and unreliable that a modern industrial society cannot survive, and we all revert to the 18th Century.
New England States Agree to end their fisheries and seafood business to go green
“Those headwinds include “record inflation, supply chain disruptions, and sharp interest rate hikes, the aggregate impact of which rendered the Park City Wind project unfinanceable under its existing contracts,” Avangrid said.”
Bidenomics
I remember when the trees were all dying from “Acid Rain”. All the eagles eggs were too thin for their mothers to nest on because of DDT. Then it was freon destroying the “Ozone Layer”.
So much BS, I can’t take another spoon full.
““One year ago, Avangrid was the first offshore wind developer in the United States to make public the unprecedented economic headwinds facing the industry,” Avangrid said in a release...Those headwinds include “record inflation, supply chain disruptions, and sharp interest rate hikes, the aggregate impact of which rendered the Park City Wind project unfinanceable under its existing contracts,” Avangrid said.”
I doubt that. Much more likely that Avangrid PURPOSELY underbid knowing full well that the Leftists running the Northeastern states were not about to let their project fail.
It would be very interesting to send in some qualified people to ‘open their books’ a bit and see what assumptions they made.
We have morons running the country. First, as we all know, the earth does not need to be decarbonized. It has no impact on climate change. Second, the idea of making power more expensive does not revitalize domestic manufacturing. It makes American manufacturing non competitive. While China builds coal plants and uses near slave labor to mine coal to produce inexpensive power to manufacture goods, America is going out of its way to increase manufacturing costs.
Two of the largest costs in manufacturing are labor and electricity. While I don’t advocate slavery like the Chinese, there are ways to keep labor costs low while increasing purchasing power of labor. Bidenomics is not the way. Government spending needs to be massively cut. Inflation needs to be eradicated. The dollar needs to be strengthened. Regulations need to be eliminated. Every failed social program needs to be abolished. Most of the federal government needs to be shuttered.
We certainly can decrease electricity costs too. NY State sits on an ocean of natural gas. Drill, frack and build pipelines to power New England electric plants. Then you’ll have cheap energy.
Sorry, you’re not getting any Pennsylvania natural gas until you prove you’re not idiots.
Thousands of Old Wind Turbine Blades Pile Up in West Texas
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/sweetwater-wind-turbine-blades-dump/
The green dream
“One megawatt can power about 1,000 U.S. homes.”
Doesn’t apply to wind/solar, as that simple factor only at full power, which is rare. The common factor to use for average power is 20% of nameplate rating (give or take 5%), and that applies to both wind and solar.
So, more like 200 homes, maybe 100 homes during a heat wave, or even 50 homes if fossil fuel heaters and water heaters are eliminated.
“We have morons running the country.”
No, we don’t. We have VERY SMART people who are evil running the country. They would have NEVER gotten as far as they are in ending electricity production and automobile travel if they were morons - they would have been laughed off the stage before doing any damage.
The last nuclear power plant built in New England was the Seabrook, NH facility that opened in 1990.
Even at this location they were permitted to build two reactors but only built one.
This was pushed through when John Sununu Sr was governor of NH and PSHN(Public Service of New hampshire) was the utility that owned/built it. FYI, my former neighbor was an electrical engineer on the project.
Seabrook, NH is on the MA border at the Atlantic ocean coast. There were huge protests in MA because the evacuation zone in the event of a melt down stretches several miles into MA. Especially onto Plum Island. A barrier island on the south side of the mouth of the Merrimack River. The issue is that there is literally one two lane road on and off of Plum Island. There were signs for years at the entrance to the island stating:
NO EVACUATION POSSIBLE
Up until recently it affected the real estate values on this ocean front island.
So, EVERSOURCE (the main New England electrical utility) knows that the NIMBY effect is very strong in New England. So, they know that there is absolutely no way you could build another nuclear plant in NE. Unless, it was in northern NH or ME.
Even in NH the Northern Pass electrical transmission line was defeated because of the NIMBY effect. The other reason that the need for additional electrical output is NOT needed in NH. It is needed in MA, CT & RI.
This would have brought electricity down from Quebec Hydro.
I believe the line is now going to be built through Maine instead.
Without a doubt. this is true! One only needs to "observe" to fully understand the magnitude of the problem.
While I don’t advocate slavery like the Chinese,...
Here, I have a question.
How do you come to the conclusion that China uses slave labor? In other words, how do you know this to be true?
Inquiring minds are asking.
“build pipelines to power New England electric plants”
A company tried that about five years ago. They proposed a pipeline from PA through NY, MA, NH and back into MA. It would have passed about three miles from my house. In NH it would have run over an existing ROW for the electric company Eversource. In fact there was an existing 1’ diameter NG pipeline that has been there for decades. The replacement was going to be a 3’ diameter pipeline. It was defeated by votes in almost every town involved. Not In My Back Yard.
The issue is now Eversource has to buy LNG that comes into port somewhere in the Boston, MA area. The problem is any LNG coming from a US producer say in Texas has to ship on a US flagged vessel due to the Jones Act. This makes transport of the LNG more expensive. In addition, IF they can load that LNG on a ship why not sell it to Great Britain , Germany, or any other European country for MORE money.
So, now Eversource has to compete with what LNG is selling for on the world markets.
So, when NG went up because of the war in Ukraine, everyone in New England pays more for electricity.
Read about the Uyghurs, that’s the starting place. That’s actual slavery. Note: I originally wrote “near slavery”. Read about working conditions, pay, working hours and living conditions of labor elsewhere in China. There are manufacturing towns where companies provide everything - everything for a very meager existence. You can also investigate immigrant labor. It’s even worse for immigrant labor than domestic labor in China. If you ever go to China, you’ll see them in plain sight on road and construction projects. They use them in place of machinery, because they are cheaper.
People have no idea what’s already in their backyards.
Far too many Americans suffer from chronic, irrational fear. We are a nation of pussies.
Correct, but IF you look at the map you just posted there are no pipelines in VT. There is one NG pipeline coming down through Maine into NH and beyond into MA. There is another from MA coming up into NH. These serve the major cities of NH.
The smaller lines branch out into the smaller towns. However, I live less than ten miles from Nashua. The gas was brought out to the high school in 1995 and stops there. Three or four miles short of my house. There will never be a gas line in front of my house.
Good suggestion.
Read about them from the same sources and government that tell us all about the...
-massive wins by the Ukes since 2/22
-1/6 insurrection
-COVID-19 is 100% safe and effective and will absolutely keep you from getting the virus
-Hunter's laptop is just more Russian propaganda
-there is no border crises
-WMDs in Iraq -- let's bomb them
Many more examples like the above are available on request.
Don't you see we are being lied to and manipulated on all fronts by those who want to now instigate another war by creating another straw man just like they always do?
Countries are the embodiment of the individuals that make them up. So, as an example, what right do I have as an individual to tell you how to raise your kids, or spend your money or what religion to believe? I don't, and we don't either when it comes to dictating our norms to another independent country.
Right?
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