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First US Offshore Wind Plant Costs $17,600 Per Home Powered
The Daily Signal ^
| October 11, 2016
| Andrew Follett
Posted on 10/12/2016 6:28:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
America’s first offshore wind power plant will cost about $17,600 dollars to build per home it will power.
Three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, the wind farm is supposed to generate enough energy to power 17,000 homes, but will cost $300 million to build five turbines. This cost is just to build the turbines, not to operate them.
The extremely high cost of offshore wind doesn’t worry environmentalists and progressives, however, because, as Salon.com says about the project, “it’s the precedent that counts.”
Despite the extremely high cost, federal officials want to power a whooping 23 million homes with offshore wind by the year 2050.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: climatechange; energy; environmentalism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greens; offshorewind; renewables; rhodeisland
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
$1,000 per month electrical bills are coming...
But we had such good intentions...
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:30:20 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Make that money come from them and see how that “precedent” disappears.
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:31:16 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
How much of the $300 million was spent on lawyers?
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Little Rhody has more idiots per square mile than any State in the Union.
I heard the Idiot CEO being interviewed on Barry Armstrong’s show WRKO Boston 680.
It is all about the Subsidies Baby.
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:37:15 PM PDT
by
acapesket
(all happy now?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“...the wind farm is supposed to generate enough energy to power 17,000 homes...”
HAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The little people get to pay for the wind farm, plus the conventional power plants to “fill in” for the 50% of the time the turbines aren’t generating squat.
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:39:44 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No company would bankroll this without taxpayer dollars.
They’d lose their asses.
It’ll make a nice fish habitat when the time comes.
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:39:45 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
How much does a similar size coal or natural gas powered plant cost?
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:40:36 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I waste my words....
Plenty of off shore wind power "plants"...have already been had.
I'm just tired fighting the lies.............
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:43:08 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(PNA....my butt)
To: 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; America_Right; ...
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
These brain dead idiots learned nothing from Europe. Precedent? What precedent? We are 20 trillion in the hole, that is precedent?!?!? BS!!!!
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:49:43 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(Beer, you like beer? Enjoy your beer and all the fungi that come with it,)
To: Fungi
Block Island is quite small and very few people “winter” there.
This scheme is supposed to keep them electrically supplied at nasty times of year.
It’s Solyndra all over again but the MOrons who live there actually swallowed the whole stink enchilada and voted for it!
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posted on
10/12/2016 6:57:44 PM PDT
by
acapesket
(all happy now?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
B,but it’s green. Obama fulfills a promise, higher energy bills.
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posted on
10/12/2016 7:01:38 PM PDT
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The term navigation hazard comes to mind.
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posted on
10/12/2016 7:04:21 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Like it’s going to come in on budget.
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posted on
10/12/2016 7:12:27 PM PDT
by
DAC21
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I wonder how this will effect “climate” to that area of coast? help in some way? cause more problems for people?
Also what is the plan when a storm takes out the wind turbines?
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posted on
10/12/2016 7:22:40 PM PDT
by
b4me
(Idolatry is rampant in thoughts and actions. Choose whom you will serve....)
To: PLMerite
Actually wind turbines only generate power around 33% of the time. But you still need to maintain them no matter what.
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posted on
10/12/2016 7:27:19 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yeah but they’ll make up for it in volume.
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posted on
10/12/2016 7:32:18 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
So it is really going to cost $35,200 per house to build.
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posted on
10/12/2016 7:52:26 PM PDT
by
Rockpile
(GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The extremely high cost of offshore wind doesn’t worry environmentalists and progressives, however, because, as Salon.com says about the project, “it’s the precedent that counts.” “the government will pay for it” Fixed it.
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posted on
10/12/2016 8:16:56 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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