Posted on 05/11/2021 7:00:22 PM PDT by DoodleBob
After two decades of false starts and lengthy delays, Massachusetts is poised to get the nation’s first large-scale offshore wind farm with the approval Tuesday by the Biden administration of a massive energy project in federal waters some 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.
The decision is an important milestone for the Biden administration’s effort to battle climate change by moving the nation’s energy policy away from fossil fuels and toward renewable sources. It is also validation of a push for wind power that started in Massachusetts some 20 years ago with the Cape Wind project that was proposed for waters in Nantucket Sound and eventually collapsed in the face of stiff opposition.
The Vineyard Wind project approved Tuesday would generate up to 800 megawatts of electricity from 62 giant turbines, enough to power at least 400,000 homes. Construction is expected to begin before the end of the year, once the developers have secured financing for the nearly $3 billion project. They hope to be generating electricity from a portion of the project by late 2023, with construction ending the following year.
“It’s not just the approval of a project, but it really is the birth of an industry,” said Dennis Arriola, chief executive of Avangrid, an energy company that is developing Vineyard Wind in a partnership with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
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The Vineyard Wind turbines, manufactured by General Electric, would be massive, some 800 feet tall, and would send electricity along underwater cables to the regional power grid near Hyannis. While Boston-based GE will manufacture the major components in Europe, as many as 2,000 workers will be employed locally during the construction of the project, and dozens will work in operations and maintenance after the wind farm is complete.
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For what it's worth, Obama's MV home is on the south side of the Vineyard (it's on the pond located about 4 o'clock from the end of the word VINEYARD on the map above). Based on this picture of his home, Obama may have a lovely view of these turbines if they're visible 12 miles away.
Just out of view, too bad.
Any wind hackers out there?
NIMBY! Nothing quite like so-called environmentalists TEARING UP a beautiful coastline.. HOW MANY SEA BIRDS CAN THEY KILL TODAY?
Mary Jo Kopechne would have had a nice view.
This will end up being another Solyndra where a bunch of Joe’s friends walk away with millions and the taxpayer gets nothing but screwed.
It won’t be out of view unless there is a big hill in the way. You can see them for a good 25 miles or more.
Are there any Kennedy’s left to crash into one?
Nothing like a bunch of money losing inefficient environmentally destroying windmills screwing up the beautiful vista of an area while killing the large birds by the thousands.
The windmills are terrible, eyesore, noisy, bird killing, polluting, hazardous waste.
But, if they have to be put somewhere, Martha’s vineyard is the best place!
Did the wind farmers ever get built by the Kennedy compound?
Thanks for the map didn’t know they were islands.
Thank heaven Walter Cronkite is not around to witness this desecration of his private playground. John Kerry, otoh, can simply leave the area and move to another of Teresa’s multiple mansions.
In my area, they put one of these monstrosities on a mountain top in a beautiful rural area. Every time I’m in the area all of a sudden it goes from nice natural mostly undisturbed nature to giant F*%*ing windmill.
The insane leftists (who don’t live within eye sight of it) point to a 150 ft mountain top radio tower with some antennas on it for local/state first responders nearby. You barely notice it and in most areas have to rally look hard to see it as they wanted to hide to to preserve the natural beauty vs a 500 ft tall giant white windmill.
They’ll be visible, especially at night with all the red lights atop the turbines.
So we will spend 3 billion for 62 wind turbines that generate 800 MW on a good day instead of a similar amount to build a new Nuke plant that can produce over 1 GW 24/7/365 no matter the weather outside.
Good, now he can stare at those bird cuisiarts just like I have to on our former pristine ridgelines.
Who cares if he can see them, as long as he can hear them roaring like a 40,000 HP diesel wind mill in a thunderstorm.
I hope it sounds like a automotive plant running full tilt 24/7/365.
A lot of Democrats and Dem policies “blow” in Massachusetts.
They should name this “wind turbine field” “The Linda Lovelace Blowfield” (and I don’t mean the guy from the James Bond movie).
Metal components immersed in salt water.
This can turn out really funny.
Or, they can invent ways for to protect metal, and cars operating near the ocean will last longer
The combination of moisture, oxygen and salt, especially sodium chloride, damages metal worse than rust does. This combination corrodes, or eats away at, the metal, weakening it and causing it to fall apart. Saltwater corrodes metal five times faster than fresh water does and the salty, humid ocean air causes metal to corrode 10 times faster than air with normal humidity. Bacteria in ocean water also consumes iron and their excretions turn to rust.
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