re: A quick insight for all the baws out there regarding wind energy.

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Offshore wind farms.... what happens when them hurricanes come?

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Meanwhile... in 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston and knocked out nearly a quarter of the nation's refining capacity.

Or the 2011 Fukushima disaster that caused a nuclear plant to melt down.

Turns out, most man-made things that aren’t just blocks of concrete struggle with catastrophic weather events...

It called heavylift ships to do that work, not Heerema's Thialf and the like. Not workboats refitted. They cannot hold the size cranes needed

Hopefully they only kill seagulls

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Jesus fricking Christ. The ignorance of this board. The fricking wind farms aren’t gonna be offshore Louisiana. They are gonna be off the east coast. The vessels used to install the turbines will be built in Louisiana at places like Bollinger. And they will be owned and operated by Louisiana companies like Edison Chouest, Harvey Gulf, and Hornbeck Offshore. Then Louisiana Mariners will take the vessels thru the straits of Florida and up the east coast to perform the work.

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Why would a state on the east coast need a boat from south Louisiana to do all that? You think they don’t have ship yards on the east coast? You think people on the east coast can’t pilot a boat?

The jackets for the first US offshore turbines in Rhode Island were built in Louisiana.

This is dumb and lazy... I want to see a windmill offshore Louisiana ( has to be closer in due to the quick drop off of the shelf) stand up to Cat 3-5 hurricane.

You left out the Chynese owned 130,000 acre Wind Farm in Texas near Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio that has the ability to connect to our grid.

https://foxsanantonio.com/news/yami-investigates/chinese-wind-farm-in-texas-its-the-greatest-national-security-concern-said-hurd

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Oil companies are slashing exploration budgets. The CEOs of Shell and BP both said, within the last few weeks, that their new projections show that they have already reached peak oil consumption. The oil industry isn’t going to disappear anytime soon, but the days of 60+ drill ships in the gulf punching holes as quickly as they can or gone. We’ll probably never see more than 25 or so active drilling rigs in the gulf ever again. And I work in the gulf so I see it firsthand. Now 25 drilling rigs can keep a decent amount of boats working, but the next offshore frontier is wind. It just is what it is.

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Pahahahaha peak oil we have only been hitting and exceeding peak oil for like 50 years. If any of this was remotely true you realize over half the world is about to starve to death due to food shortages. No oil results in no tractors, fertilizer, combines to harvest, no plastic sacks to package the harvest, no ships, trucks, trains to transport it.

from the Trump Twitter Archive V2:

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Output from industrial wind turbines declines by nearly *50%* (!) over 10 years - Cost of taking down old wind turbines

Wind turbines are death to environment.

Obama's wind turbines kill “13-39 million birds and bats every year!” https://t.co/33vZUrkKu2 Save our bald eagles, symbol of our nation!

Isn't it ironic that China is going all in nuclear for energy while at the same time making wind turbines for others

Wind turbines kill up to 39 million birds a year, Industry hides evidence of kills https://t.co/OdBS3Sr7xJ"

Turbines will also kill more birds than developer will admit to & ruin lives of folks living close & not reduce CO2

We should look to China where big time pollution takes place as they manufacture inefficient and costly wind turbines for Scotland!

Spain's government is closing down wind turbines--- the maintenance is higher than the income.

Wind turbines are totally destroying the areas in which they are located—all for unreliable, bad & expensive energy!

Yesterday Barack Obama said he wants "wind turbines manufactured here in China" https://youtu.be/PuVOBSwNWbE I don't think this was a gaffe.

Nobody wants wind turbines, they are failing all over the world and need massive subsidy--a disaster for taxpayers.

https://www.thetrumparchive.com/?results=1&searchbox=%22turbines%22
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Great article on wind turbines by Robert Bryce in @NYPost

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Gov. Cuomo last month ordered state officials to study the health effects of hydraulic fracturing — and so continued to prevent drillers from exploiting the Marcellus Shale. But if he’s truly interested in public health, the governor must also put a freeze on wind-energy projects in New York until their health impact can be gauged.

After all, residents across rural New York — indeed, country-dwellers around the world — are waging bitter fights against industrial-scale wind projects, and one of their main concerns is the health effects of the audible and inaudible noise created by large wind turbines.

To date, the state has assumed that oil and gas drilling is “guilty (dirty) until proven innocent” but wind-energy development is “clean.” Indeed, if New York is to meet its renewable-energy target — to obtain 30 percent of all electricity from renewables by 2015 — several thousand new wind turbines will be needed.

https://nypost.com/2012/10/17/against-the-wind/