All Blog Posts Tagged 'Offshore' (9)

Hybrid Offshore Wind Turbine Blade Failure Over 300 Feet

Picture: Broken offshore wind blade Nantucket Massachusetts. Note: Dr. Edgar J. Gunter, President, was a professor emeritus, after teaching for 34 years in the Department of Mechanical,…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on September 4, 2024 at 10:45am — 3 Comments

Offshore Vineyard Wind is Un-American

Offshore Vineyard Wind is Un-American

Courting foreign energy companies’ entry into the offshore renewable energy market undermines our energy goals.  

“Instead of relying on foreign oil and foreign energy, we are now relying on American energy and American workers like never before.”

President Donald J. Trump…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on November 13, 2019 at 12:08pm — 11 Comments

Offshore wind cable/foundation failure, public comment MA Vineyard Wind

Mr. Matthew Beaton, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs

Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA)

Attn: MEPA Office

Purvi Patel, EEA No. 15787 (Vineyard Wind Connector)

100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900

Boston MA 02114



To Honorable Secretary Beaton:

Thank you for providing this opportunity for me to comment on the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project SDEIR.  I…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on October 8, 2018 at 7:08pm — 5 Comments

Failed: Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations, Blades and Cables

FAILED:  Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations, Blades and Cables

If Cape Wind was constructed as 130 Siemens 3.6 MW turbines, it would have failed.  

Offshore wind blades, monopole foundations, and cables have failed featuring Cape Wind specifications, 

(130) Siemens 3.6MW wind turbines. 

The US has adopted the European monopole standard foundation design code (J101).  Borrowing from oil and gas industries technology, they failed to…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on May 23, 2018 at 8:54am — 2 Comments

Offshore Wind: U.K Supreme Court Finds Industry-Wide Design Code Failure

A U.K Supreme Court Ruling finds fundamental design code failure of offshore wind as proposed for the Atlantic and Pacific Coastlines



Source: Maritime Executive 11/11/17

RE: U.K Supreme Court-



'Landmark Case Changes Offshore Wind Legal Landscape'

"fundamental failure in the industry standard design code"

maritime-executive.com



Case history-

SUPREME COURT United Kingdom August 3, 2017 Summary-Offshore wind turbines, industry-wide, have serious… Continue

Added by Barbara Durkin on November 13, 2017 at 10:12am — 1 Comment

Threats to marine & human life posed by offshore wind

An email blast arrived in my inbox this morning that alerted recipients to a Perfect Storm threat to marine life. Consistent with my research, the offshore wind industry off the coastline of Cape Cod appears to be taking its toll.



My response to "all" appears directly below. I have included the email from Frank H., to which I've responded.



Your points are well taken, Frank. Thank you.



This is the Perfect Storm advanced by political hacks and a "culture of… Continue

Added by Barbara Durkin on August 11, 2017 at 12:09pm — 1 Comment

MA Senators Markey and Warren file bill to accelerate your debt and the folly of offshore wind

Set off by Massachusetts' Senator Markey and Senator Warren's introduction of legislation, (read TAX AND RATE INCREASE), to promote offshore wind, I set out to review and Blog information about America's First Offshore Wind project consisting of 5 offshore wind turbines, DeepWater Wind.  …

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Added by Barbara Durkin on May 15, 2017 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

LePage Admin's choice: exploit the Gulf of Maine for ocean wind power for Boston? Or for lobsters, scallops & haddock for Maine?

As far as the Gulf of Maine goes, Governor Paul LePage must begin by either

(1) supporting the rough and tumble economy of Maine's existing small ocean businesses - lobstering and other commercial & recreational fisheries offshore and onshore of Maine, and their supporting landbased economic partners. Or…
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Added by Ron Huber on November 21, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Maine DeepCwind Consortium: will it factor in the climate-altering effects of their ocean energy extraction plans?

Or must it be pushed into meeting its ethical responsibility to avoid lasting harm to the climate?…
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Added by Ron Huber on July 11, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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