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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Skull on May 12, 2021, 04:59:46 pm

Title: Ugly wind farms for Atlantic coast
Post by: Skull on May 12, 2021, 04:59:46 pm

From Martha's vineyard southward these ugly, destructive gadgets will now blight ocean vistas.

https://theconversation.com/us-approves-its-first-big-offshore-wind-farm-near-marthas-vineyard-its-a-breakthrough-for-the-industry-160747 (https://theconversation.com/us-approves-its-first-big-offshore-wind-farm-near-marthas-vineyard-its-a-breakthrough-for-the-industry-160747)

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The United States’ offshore wind industry is tiny, with just seven wind turbines operating off Rhode Island and Virginia. The few attempts to build large-scale wind farms like Europe’s have run into long delays, but that may be about to change.

On May 11, 2021, the U.S. government issued the final federal approval for the Vineyard Wind project, a utility-scale wind farm that has been over a decade in the planning. The wind farm’s developers plan to install 62 giant turbines in the Atlantic Ocean about 15 miles off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts...

Title: Re: Ugly wind farms for Atlantic coast
Post by: thackney on May 12, 2021, 05:10:08 pm

I think we will see a lot more of these in the near future.

...12 projects that have reached the permitting phase with either a construction and operations plan or a viable offtake mechanism for sale of electricity, seven commercial lease areas in federal waters with exclusive site control, eight in the planning stage, two unleased wind energy areas, and five projects (all Pacific-based) that have submitted unsolicited applications to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management...

https://windexchange.energy.gov/markets/offshore

Title: Re: Ugly wind farms for Atlantic coast
Post by: Sled Dog on May 13, 2021, 03:06:55 am

It was so depressing to see those ugly things all over the landscape when I drove to CT last year.   And worse, to see truckloads of fan blades heading west to destroy more scenery and more birds.

Title: Re: Ugly wind farms for Atlantic coast
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 13, 2021, 06:11:50 pm

The only ray of sunshine is these "farms" will be part of Obama's ocean front views.  He'll be able to see AND hear them.   :smokin:


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Title: Re: Ugly wind farms for Atlantic coast
Post by: PeteS in CA on May 13, 2021, 06:57:54 pm

The seagull choppers have been a big fail for Germany, off their Baltic coast, But in typical Enviro-Prog "logic", Germany just didn't do it right.

Title: Re: Ugly wind farms for Atlantic coast
Post by: Sled Dog on May 13, 2021, 07:36:29 pm

American socialists will be happy to show the Germans how to really use a Sky Cuisinart.