[Libloather]

And when the wind dies down, pray for a hurricane.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And it is RACIST to wonder how much climate change would be induced by such a monstrosity.

[smokingfrog]

The lifespan of an offshore turbine is not going to be very long. Plus, keeping that many constantly maintained would be a logistics nightmare.

[southernnorthcarolina]

One windmill mounted on an exhaust vent on the Capitol Building dome should provide all the power needed.

[Sacajaweau]

We have plenty of gas here. My heat is gas and it’s friggin expensive. NYS should be able to cut my cost in half with fracking....but thast will never happen. The big “cut” will go into the NYS coffers...another way to rob the workers.

[Argus]

the analysis shows it's doable and where the best locations are

Martha's Vineyard, Hyannisport, Newport, the south shore of Connecticut, the Hamptons, Hilton Head, Palm Beach...

What? Too many big Democrat donors have vacation homes there? Whaddya say? What????

[cripplecreek]

LOL this from yesterday.

Michigan blowhads are admitting that its pretty much impossible but want it in the constitution anyway.

Proposal 3 would require that the state add as many as 13 times more wind turbines in Michigan than currently operate. Proposal 3 would mandate that 25 percent of Michigan’s energy come from renewable sources. Wind is expected to be the primary supplier of renewable energy if the proposal passes.

Advocates and experts predict 2,300 to 3,790 nearly 500-feet high wind turbines would have to be added to meet the 25-percent mandate. Michigan currently has 292 wind turbines in operation.



Most of Michigan is 'Poor' or 'Marginal' For Wing Energy

Keep in mind, that's only for 25%. 100% will mean something like 12,000 windmills.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The bogus photo that purports to show the view of a wind farm from Nantucket Island, does not show the turbines in motion. When these things move, they are incredibly distracting. We are hard-wired to notice motion & these turbines will be mesmerizing. They will destroy views. The Kennedys got this right.

[JRandomFreeper]

but only via turbines on land.

And only when the wind blows.

I'm all for alternative energy. My shack up in the mountain was too far from commercial 'lektrikity to have commercial power. I had wind, solar, and a backup diesel genset. Lots and lots of batteries.... Maintenance... sweeping snow from solar panels...

Sure, it can be done. If one doesn't mind living like a mountain man.

Nothing like washing your hair on the front porch in -18F weather, and feeling better about being in the 38F shack, because there isn't any wind.

/johnny

[Stosh]

I have a relative in the energy services business, and he always points out to me how critical it is to balance power supply and power demand on the grid - if demand exceeds supply by too great a margin, the grid goes down, hard.

And the problem with wind is that it doesn’t always blow, so typically when utilities install wind farms, they also build gas fired turbine units as back ups for when the wind dies out. The more you rely on wind, the more back-ups you need (a few years back, the grid in Texas almost went down as the air got still, and the utilities desperately looked for back-up).

So if these bozos are going to try to put up hundreds of thousands of wind turbines (and in whose backyard, I might ask - certainly not any Kennedy’s), they’re going to need a boatload of gas turbine power plants to keep that grid operable.

[FrankR]

To paraphrase a famous movie line; “Just because we CAN do something doesn’t always mean we HAVE to do it.”

[beethovenfan]

What a horrible thought!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Silly.

[manc]

one it kills thousands of birds and wildlife, secondly if anything was ugly on the contry side it has ot be those disgusting looking windmills.

So where are the animal protectoring groups on this?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Silly.

[concerned about politics]

Every wind mill farm we have in America today is subsidized (supported with tax payer dollars), because they're unsustainable. They're just as much a losing proposition as solar panels.

With this plan, the tax payers would be on the hook for 144,000 more of them.

[pfony1]

Ho hum,

I’d bet that not one of these wind-power advocates has ever replaced a failed reduction gear in the nacelle that is “up there”, just behind the blades, during periods of “normal” wave action.

Experience shows that all of the maintenance costs of these cartoonish devices always - ALWAYS - exceeds the claimed “value” of the energy they produce.

[Popman]

These idiots are going to send us back to the stone age.... Doing everything by fire light when the grid goes down half the time....

[GeronL]

how is that doable? These people are insane.

[Carry_Okie]

Saltwater, steel, and electricity.

The maintenance nightmare from hell.

You can tell when an engineering professor has never fixed a boat.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I am reminded of an old Bloom County comic, in which the little genius boy had figured out “an original idea”, a way to put 100 porcupines on treadmills and feed them raisins, as a way to theoretically generate enough electricity to power the entire world.

However, as his science teacher pointed out, “Porcupines are allergic to raisins,” then cuttingly added that, “failure is hardly original. Sit down.”