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Offshore Windmill Farms....booming buisness
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:23 am
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:23 am
Its the future of America...It's a booming business on the East Coast
Their windmill farms are becoming like our oil industry in the GOM
Their windmill farms are becoming like our oil industry in the GOM
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:24 am to tgrbaitn08
Gonna be lots of dead birds
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:24 am to tgrbaitn08
No energy is ever really “clean”
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:26 am to tgrbaitn08
We could light up the whole country during hurricane season!
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:26 am to tgrbaitn08
Pelicans are gonna be endangered soon
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:29 am to upgrayedd
Im telling you....it's coming.
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Three northeastern US states this week signed up for a cumulative 1,200 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind power, and hinted at even more ambitious goals in the future. It’s been a long time coming.
The US east coast’s premier project, Cape Wind, finally died in 2017 after a decade of protests from residents who objected to obstructed views and risks to wildlife (including the Kennedy political dynasty and billionaire William Koch). The three commitments made this week take up the mantle from that failed project.
On May 23, Massachusetts’s awarded its first offshore-wind contract to Vineyard Wind for a 800 MW, 100-turbine farm to be built further offshore then previous projects were planned for, in order to avoid local opposition. It will fulfill the first half of a legal commitment, made in a 2016 energy law, by the state to purchase 1,600 megawatts of offshore wind.
Massachusetts’s neighbor Rhode Island followed suit, contracting its own 400 MW, 50-turbine project with Deepwater Wind, the company behind the 30-MW Block Island Wind Project, the US’s first offshore wind farm, completed in 2016. That will help Rhode Island reach its goal of increasing the state’s renewable-energy capacity 10-fold (to 1,000 MW) by 2020. Both wind farms will be built in the Wind Energy Area, 164,750 acres of federal waters between Block Island and Martha’s Vineyard designated for wind development.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:29 am to tgrbaitn08
Looks like a good spot to catch some mangroves.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:30 am to tgrbaitn08
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This is hideous so I hope not.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:30 am to tgrbaitn08
Texas produces the most wind power. We aren't just all O&G.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:31 am to tgrbaitn08
I know a guy in Oklahoma who has 100 of those on his land, gets something like $1,000 a month for each one.
Quit his job and lives on mailbox money
Quit his job and lives on mailbox money
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:31 am to Haydo
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Texas produces the most wind power. We aren't just all O&G.
This thread is about OFFSHORE wind farms
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:33 am to tgrbaitn08
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who objected to obstructed views and risks to wildlife (including the Kennedy political dynasty and billionaire William Koch
Obstructed views to what? Their view of the bank accounts from the oil industry? Those poor, poor birds are also at risk.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:35 am to The Torch
How much land does he have them on? Neighbors pissed? Ha
This post was edited on 12/27/18 at 9:36 am
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:37 am to TOSOV
I always find it interesting how the left wing will overlook the negatives of these things, like killing birds and how environmentally gawdy they are.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:38 am to Haydo
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Texas produces the most wind power. We aren't just all O&G.
Enjoying my cheap electric bill in Houston thanks to energy deregulation
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:39 am to tgrbaitn08
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800 MW, 100-turbine farm
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400 MW, 50-turbine
The smallest nuclear power plant in the US generates around 600 MW. The largest generates around 4,000 MW.
1 nuclear power plant = 500 wind turbines
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:41 am to tgrbaitn08
Ted Kennedy hates this more than the perpetual pineapple up the arse torture he's experiencing in hell.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:45 am to terd ferguson
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U.S. offshore wind power is expected to surge over the next decade—reaching 10,000 megawatts by 2030, compared to just 30 megawatts installed in the water today, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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A 21,000% Gain Shows Sky-High Value of Offshore Wind Leases European energy firms want to build wind farms off the U.S. East Coast.
This post was edited on 12/27/18 at 9:47 am
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:46 am to tgrbaitn08
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U.S. offshore wind power is expected to surge over the next decade—reaching 10,000 megawatts by 2030
So 2.5 nuclear power plants?
ETA - That comes out to 1,250 wind turbines. Are they going to leave room in the ocean for ships?
This post was edited on 12/27/18 at 9:48 am
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