>> I wonder if they consider how dangerous these windmill panes will be when they break off at 120mph and begin cartwheeling across the coast. Bet they did not consider that either.
I bet they did a back-of-the-napkin calculation to satisfy themselves that those cartwheeling blades won’t make it as far as either Palo Alto or Newark, DE.
If a few flyover-country rubes get decapitated or crushed, so what? Especially if they’re in the SOUTH.
“I bet they did a back-of-the-napkin calculation”
OT: That made me chuckle because the local town here decided they “needed” to buy a private water supply company. So, after finding a “suitable” outside appraiser, one who agreed with their idea, he miraculacy agreed with the asked for sales price through an off hand calculation on the back of a napkin while having lunch. See the town figured they could use the water company to fund all their pet projects while raping the customers. Of course they ended up paying about twice what the asset was worth and have not paid one dime on the corpus of the bonds in 12 years while running the system into the ground financially. So guess what? They now need raise taxes or increase the already sky high water rates. Where did the money go? No one seems to know as it went into the pit called “general revenue” and money is fungible.
Louisiana has 397 linear miles of coastline. They have much more if you measure all the inlets and tidal areas but thats no really accurate for this purpose.
So they want to spread 78,000 turbines over 397 miles. Thats 196.4 wind turbines per mile. They cost $2 million each plus land acquisition and maintenance costs.
Why aren’t idiots like this run out of town covered in tar and feathers.
Probably bitter clingers. We're better off without them.