Posted on 11/24/2021 10:26:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Biden administration approved an offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island on Wednesday as part of a plan to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030.
The administration expects to review at least 16 construction and operations plans for commercial offshore wind energy facilities by 2025.
“We have no time to waste in cultivating and investing in a clean energy economy that can sustain us for generations,” Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said in a statement. “Just one year ago, there were no large-scale offshore wind projects approved in the federal waters of the United States. Today there are two, with several more on the horizon.”
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These things are ridiculous.
Expensive, inefficient, and a visual blight in the environment. Who will tear them all out as the fail in the decades ahead?
They should place all of these in and around Martha’s Vineyard. Considering it’s all of those people who own property there who order around the rest of us to do whatever they say about these idiotic new technologies which do not work. While they are at it. There is way way too much unused land there as well. Low income housing needs to be centralized there as well.
They should have stopped thusly: ““We have no time to waste in cultivating and investing in a clean energy economy.” since the cost will be more than any could ever imagine.
“They should place all of these in and around Martha’s Vineyard. “
Yep in front of Obama’s house
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More sea bird killing. What do these idiots have against birds?
In other news, Rhode Island flipped Red in the 2022 elections after all their current politicians were behind the green new deal that included those hideous wind farms off the coastal waters.
30 Gigawatts is not a lot when you consider the US has 1226 Gigawatts of total generation capacity.
The left goes insane about a small handful of oil rigs off the California coast, but they are perfectly happy with hundreds of thousands of wind machines destroying the magnificent ocean views.
If you look at the search results, you will NEVER see what the wind machines look like from the beach or from the ocean looking toward the shore. They don't want you knowing how much they will despoil the ocean views.
But you will ALWAYS see the oil platforms with the distant mountains in the scene. They do their damnest to make the wind machines look attractive and the oil rigs ugly.
Just wait until the entire USA is filled with tens of millions of these infernal machines.
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You are right, taxpayers will cover the cost of decommissioning these huge globs of concrete and steel … a good many will be left to rust and decay.
Guess Interior wants more dead seagulls. Oh well, more meat for the sharks!
Looks like fun for sailboats
I doubt that they're built as well as offshore oil & gas platforms; could be that 'Mother Nature' will remove them, singly and/or in bunches...
;>)
The huge concrete bases will be semipermanent islets …
When one of them gets spinning at 87 rpm, you’re gonna see some serious shit.
This monster project will kill birds, lobsters and scallops, destroy the environment, use a lot of energy and resources and provide meager 130MW once a while, when the wind is just the right.
Enough to simultaneously quick charge 350 Tesla’s.
US consumes on average 450GW of power. So the full 30GW project (which this is like 2% of) could replace about 7.5% of our average electricity consumption.
Given that the wind blows and we are not in peak consumption.
Practically, maybe 1-2% judging from Germany experience which realistically uses about 1/6 of the installed wind power.
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