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re: Offshore Windmill Farms....booming buisness
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:53 am to terd ferguson
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:53 am to terd ferguson
offshore renewable energy is very finicky in the US. Block Island was a good project and Vineyard Wind is a big step but the amount of projects in between these two that went from promising to shelved is alarming. i still think its hard to gauge...
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Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:54 am to AliBahBah54
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offshore renewable energy is very finicky in the US.
It's dogshit.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:56 am to tgrbaitn08
Can't hang truck nuts on a windmill baw.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 9:58 am to terd ferguson
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It's dog shite.
I can't and won't argue that.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:07 am to TOSOV
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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.
Are you retarded? Buildings kill just as many birds. Refinery plants kill tons of birds. I find it interesting how the right overlooks the environment on everything else.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:12 am to terd ferguson
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That comes out to 1,250 wind turbines. Are they going to leave room in the ocean for ships?
Apparently there are 4000 unmanned oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico alone. I think the ships will be okay.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:20 am to Merck
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Apparently there are 4000 unmanned oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico alone.
This is absurd, are O&G companies not required to dismantle/decommission them when they are "done" with them?
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:20 am to Merck
Those are fish habitat platrforms and nurseries...
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:22 am to Epic Cajun
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This is absurd, are O&G companies not required to dismantle/decommission them when they are "done" with them?
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:22 am to wickowick
O&G supermajors have been investing into wind energy at an international scale for some time now.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:25 am to tgrbaitn08
quote:do some research on wind energy and get back to us. it isnt as great as you think. only a 20 year life of those turbines.
Offshore Windmill Farms....booming buisness
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
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:25 am to Epic Cajun
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This is absurd, are O&G companies not required to dismantle/decommission them when they are "done" with them?
The are but they have to get permits to do so and unless the feds force them they just leave them there.
Sometimes they will scrap, sell or recondition them.
But permits baw....
The feds actually just gave a huge grant to p&a a lot of abandoned pipelines and platforms and strung the payments out for so long it’s caused a huge number of companies to file bankruptcy and/or fold.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:26 am to tgrbaitn08
Been going on for while baw, this ain’t news, Hawaiians hate them
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:28 am to terd ferguson
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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 is a fluff piece. wind farming just isnt efficient. 
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:32 am to Prominentwon
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Those poor, poor birds are also at risk.
That issue is mitigated once you push the wind farms far enough offshore. There aren’t many species of birds who migrate over open water. Pushing the farms over the horizon from shore also eliminates most of the visual issues
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:33 am to crewdepoo
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Buildings kill just as many birds
Looking forward to reading your research on this topic.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:34 am to CarRamrod
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do some research on wind energy and get back to us. it isnt as great as you think. only a 20 year life of those turbines.
So they change them out....
All I know is Im seeing a lot of Us service companies up there investing in the offshore wind farms work...just like the services companies down here that support the offshore O&G work....
Also, those wind farms off the East coast are at most 20 miles offshore...so they dont have far to go to support these farms
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:35 am to Epic Cajun
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This is absurd, are O&G companies not required to dismantle/decommission them when they are "done" with them?
Agreed.
Every now and then the General Land Office will holler at us to help them out because vessels will scrape their hulls on pipes. It's pretty crazy how this is even a thing considering the safety aspect.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:36 am to Big_Slim
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This is hideous so I hope not
Looks awful.
Posted on 12/27/18 at 10:36 am to Jim Rockford
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Can't hang truck nuts on a windmill baw
You can its just noisy as frick
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