First commercial size offshore wind farm for US.

[Clem72]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/climate/climate-wind-farm.html

Okay GIlligan, where were you on this one? Also, tell us why it's not as good as 10 year old ones in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, UK.

 

[Kyle]

$2.8 Billion to energize 400k homes.

Not very cost effective vs building a power plant that can power millions.

 

[Gilligan]

Okay GIlligan, where were you on this one?

Where was I?? That farm has been in planning longer than any other in US...so it's no surprise that it's the first one to (finally) gain full approval. At the Offshore Wind conference in 2018, Vineyard was predicting they'd be operating it by now..LOL.

And this moronic statement...sheesh..: "“A clean energy future is within our grasp in the United States,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Tuesday. "

Build every wind project ever conceived and it still won't make up 10% of US power needs.

 

[Gilligan]

Meanwhile...in the rest of the world..the crew transfer vessels we help build are supporting over 10,000 offshore wind turbines. ;-)

 

[Kyle]

Meanwhile...in the rest of the world..the crew transfer vessels we help build are supporting over 10,000 offshore wind turbines. ;-)

One other amusing, or not, consideration is the vulnerability of sabotage of a resource off shore. Think it was easy for the GSR to sabotage a pipeline? This would be easier to reach.

 

[Gilligan]

One other amusing, or not, consideration is the vulnerability of sabotage of a resource off shore. Think it was easy for the GSR to sabotage a pipeline? This would be easier to reach.

That's the one positive aspect of the minimal contribution that offshore wind will make to the overall power grid. It goes down...nobody notices.

 

[Clem72]

That's the one positive aspect of the minimal contribution that offshore wind will make to the overall power grid. It goes down...nobody notices.

Or if any major power plants in the area go down and cause problems they can blame the wind-farm. WE DIDN'T KNOW WATER COULD FREEZE!

(btw, when I said where are you I meant where was your post, you seem to always be on top of posting the wind farm stuff).

 

[h3mech]

$2.8 Billion to energize 400k homes.

Not very cost effective vs building a power plant that can power millions.

no ROI

 

[Gilligan]

(btw, when I said where are you I meant where was your post, you seem to always be on top of posting the wind farm stuff).

Vineyard's operators already bought a shiny new crew transfer vessel and it's not "one of ours", so no $$ for us. So I hate them already...LOL.

 

[BOP]

Or if any major power plants in the area go down and cause problems they can blame the wind-farm. WE DIDN'T KNOW WATER COULD FREEZE!

(btw, when I said where are you I meant where was your post, you seem to always be on top of posting the wind farm stuff).

Wind farm, funny farm - it's all the same to Gill.

 

[Hijinx]

$2.8 Billion to energize 400k homes.

Not very cost effective vs building a power plant that can power millions.

That's my question too.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to build a Nuclear Power Plant ?
At least they work when the wind isn't blowing.

Maybe we could gat Space X to send the expended Nuclear source to the sun on a rocket.

 

[Gilligan]

Wind farm, funny farm - it's all the same to Gill.

muah ha haa

 

[Kyle]

Maybe we could gat Space X to send the expended Nuclear source to the sun on a rocket.

 

[Grumpy]

What post did she draw for the Preakness Stakes??

 

[Kinnakeet]

Wind farm, funny farm - it's all the same to Gill.

ITS ALL STUPID AND WILL NEVER WORK

 

[BOP]

That's my question too.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to build a Nuclear Power Plant ?
At least they work when the wind isn't blowing.

Maybe we could gat Space X to send the useless Congress critters to the sun on a rocket.

Fixt.