Ban the Expensive, Dysfunctional Offshore Wind Turbine Fiasco

Ban the Expensive, Dysfunctional Offshore Wind Turbine Fiasco

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/ban-the-dysfunctional-...

by Willem Post
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Eliminate all subsidies of any kind for all industries, etc.

Federal government spending would be reduced by several hundred $billion each year
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Torsional Failure Issues Date Back to 1997

LM Wind Power, formerly LM Glasfiber, is a Danish manufacturer of wind turbine blades, had blade cracking issues, due to torsion, as far back as 1997

Blade cracks signal new stress problem, preventative investment nee...

That was 27 years ago.
That involved Danish-built, 19 m blades at that time
The Cape Cod blades are 107 m

A rotor with 107 m blades scribes a circle of about 600 ft diameter
The wind speeds significantly vary from top to bottom, and from side to side
That 107 m blade sees all sorts of wind speeds, as it rotates, bends and twists, unlike the much smaller airplane wing of a 747

General Electric Bought LM Wind Power in 2016 

The 107 m prototype, GE-LM blade,

never had a one-year field test in a rough ocean environment, and

never had a torsion test at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, because it was cut in two parts to fit in the building.

Torsion testing predicts a material’s behavior under twisting forces as one unit.

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107 m Rotor Blade Failure

On July 13, 2024, a Vineyard Wind blade broke off Nantucket during low wind conditions, sending 60 tons of microfibers, fiberglass, and balsa wood into the ocean and onto beaches, damaging fisheries and tourism for many months, if not years

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Rotor Blade Test Requirements

Regarding the disintegrating rotor blades in Cape Cod, ultrasonic testing is fine, radiological testing is fine, but field testing of fully instrumented, 351-ft long, rotor blades on a mast, in a windy area of the North Sea, for at least one year, is the most important and vital part, which Quebec GE executives decided to “omit” to expedite delivery of rotor blades.
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These rotor blades are about three times as long as an airplane wing of a Boeing-747.
Nobody with a sane mind would ever "omit" field testing, including bend and torsion testing.

 

Static testing is wholly inadequate for a rotor blade that sees variable torsion and variable bending forces WITH EACH TURN, because wind speeds significantly vary from side to side and top to bottom of the 800-ft diameter circle scribed by the rotor thousands of times per day.

 

During stronger winds, say 30 to 40 miles/h, dynamic forces are very high, and can only be measured by fully instrumenting blades on a mast in the North Sea, for at least a year to cover all weather conditions.

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What were these GE executives thinking?

How in hell did they get into these top positions?
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Falsifying Test Records in Quebec

GE Quebec personnel falsified rotor test data, to expedite delivery, instead of admitting the design is a Rube Goldberg

The falsified test records endangered people, the environment, ocean fauna, fisheries, and tourism.

All these are felonious offenses.

Governments bureaucrats likely were involved as well.
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A major house cleaning is required.

All involved should be fired and prosecuted for gross malfeasance, and blacklisted, and never again be allowed to be employed in any industry.

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Treasonous Government Bureaucrats

Bureau of Safety and Environment Enforcement, BSEE, (what a name for a useless bureau) wants to establish facts on the ground, by building wind turbine projects without rotors, so projects will be harder to cancel by sane people in early 2025. 

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Environmental Organizations Taking Bribes from Wind System Developers

How could these compromised, bought-and-paid-for entities ever offer an objective opinion?

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The wind system developers are buying/paying off a spectrum of organizations to create the impression of widespread public support for their nefarious offshore wind schemes, that turned out to be environmentally  and economically disastrous, because:

 

1) blades keep falling down,

2) financing and insurance costs are off the charts,

3) projects are being cancelled and renegotiated at 15 c/kWh, wholesale, for fixed offshore, and 18 c/kWh, wholesale, for floating offshore.

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Al this before Trump will end subsidies for wind, solar, batteries, heat pumps, EVs, etc., on Day 1

That will put tens of thousands of bureaucrats out of business all over the US and will collapse the green rip-off.

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US Government and Democrat Cabal Screwing American Workers

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Why in hell is GE, a US company, in cahoots with a French company, building several hundred experimental rotor blades in Quebec, Canada, and have them transported from Quebec to Cape Cod, and, because of defects, from Cape Cod to France and back to Cape Cod, using European-owned, specialized ships, to a French rotor blade production facility, which happens to have a more suitable testing lab?

Why is field testing not done after lab testing?

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How low can a US company and US government go by screwing US workers out of jobs?

The Inflation Reduction Act was sold to the gullible/misinformed public, because “it would create jobs in the US”
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The Socialist/Obama-holdover cabal, using demented BIDEN/word-salad HARRIS as its puppets for 4 years, did its Offshore Wind thing, and its Open Borders thing, its DEI/Woke thing, etc., and drove US society of its tracks, and ran up huge federal deficits and grossly increased the size of federal government and national debt.

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The cabal “things” ended up screwing the American people, and fattened the treasure chests of:

1) the traitorous cabal and associated entities, and

2) Europe, the reason the European elites like Biden/Harris so much.

Was the cabal thinking the American people would just put up with this crap forever?

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Now you see why the American people finally had to take revenge by voting the cabal idiots out.

Now you see why former Democrats Trump, Gabbard, Musk and RFK, Jr. became Republicans

Now you see why the Amish, who normally do not vote, finally went to the polls and voted for Trump.

Now you see why Christians turned out to vote for Trump, en masse, to preserve Christianity.
Now you see why European elites hate Trump, because Trump puts America first, unlike two-faced, obstructionist RINOs, like Senators Collins, Murkowski, etc. 

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Regarding Mayflower Wind, aka South-Coast Wind

This 850-ft tall, European financed, designed, built, shipped on specialized ships, erected by specialized ships, has this monstrosity been built?

Europe would provide most of the spare parts and labor for O&M for decades

Is its faux license being reviewed?

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What likely will happen is a low first-year-price/kWh, then an up to 4%/y escalation for 15 or 20 years to provide a juicy profit for the moneyed elites likely living abroad in the poshest of places, laughing all the way to the bank, while impoverishing all others with higher taxes, higher electric rates, higher prices for other goods and services for decades.

On top of that travesty, there will maximum impact on tourism, fisheries and view sheds, and no measurable benefit to the climate.

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Increased CO2 ppm in atmosphere is an essential life gas that increases growth of fauna and flora, and increases crop yields to feed hungry people.

Net zero by 2050 to reduce CO2 is a taxpayer-subsidized, criminal enterprise by self-serving moneyed elites and bureaucrat toadies/idiots to undermine Mother Nature

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Comparing Area Requirements of Nuclear, Solar and Wind

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Nuclear plants last 60 to 80 years, solar about 25 y and wind about 20 y

Nuclear plants can be designed to be load following, as in France.

W/S are highly subsidized, grid disturbing, weather-dependent, very expensive, electricity sources, as shown below.

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Europe is Not Our Ally

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Net zero by 2050 Euro elites tried to entangle the US, with help of the unpatriotic, leftist Biden clique, into going down the black hole of 30,000 MW by 2030 of expensive, highly-subsidized, weather-dependent, grid-disturbing offshore wind systems, which would need highly subsidized battery systems for grid support.

The wind systems would have produced electricity at about 15 c/kWh, about 2.5 times greater than from domestic US gas, coal, nuclear, hydro plants, which would have made the US even more uncompetitive in world markets

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Almost the entire supply of the projects would be designed and made in Europe, then transported across the Atlantic Ocean by European specialized ships, then unloaded at new, $500-million storage/pre-assembly/staging/barge-loading areas, then barged to European specialized erection ships for erection of the wind systems. The financing will be mostly by European pension funds.

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Hundreds of people in each seashore stare would have jobs during the erection phase

The other erection jobs would be by specialized European people, mostly on cranes and ships

Hundreds of people in each seashore state would have long-term O&M jobs, using European spare parts, during the 20-y electricity production phase.

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Conglomerates of Euro elites would finance, build, erect, own and operate almost 30,000 MW of the offshore windmills, providing work for many thousands of European workers for decades, and multi-$billion profits each year.

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That ruse did not quite work out, because Trump was elected.

The European, hate-Trump elites are furious. Projects are being cancelled. The European wind industry is in shambles, with multi-$billion losses, lay-offs and $billions of stranded costs.

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Trump spared the US from the W/S evils inflicted by the leftist, woke Democrat cabal, that used an autopen for Biden signatures and used on-the-beach/in-the-basement Biden as an increasingly dysfunctional Marionette.
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Trump declared a National Energy Emergency, and put W/S/B systems at the bottom of the list, and suspended their licenses to put their environmental impact statements, EIS, under proper scrutiny.

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Europe was using its IPCC-invented, “CO2-is-evil” hoax, based on its own science, to conjure up a worldwide “Net-zero by 2050” scam.

Euro elites used the Wind/Solar/Battery scam as a ruse, so the US would deliver electricity to users at high c/kWh, to preserve Europe’s extremely advantageous trade balance with the US.

 https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/international-trade-is...

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Lopsided Trade Agreements

Prior to NAFTA, Mexico always had annual trade deficits with the US
After NAFTA, Canada and Mexico have huge annual trade surpluses with the US.

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After NAFTA, foreign (and US) companies shipped parts to Mexico and assembled cars, with their entire production shipped into the US DUTY-FREE, that is not MAGA, but exploitation to the disadvantage of the US and US workers

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After NAFTA, Dutch companies shipped automated greenhouses, the size of airplane hangars, to Canada (which provides nearly free gas), with their entire production shipped into the US DUTY-FREE, that is not MAGA, but exploitation to the disadvantage of the US and US workers.

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Dutch/Belgian companies own more than 50% of the food supermarkets on the US East Coast; plenty of shelf space for European farm goods to the disadvantage of US farmers.

Europe has been doing the same since the Kennedy Round, which opened US markets, without the US getting lower tariffs from Europe.
Euro elites loved Kennedy

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Finally, the US has a hard-nosed businessman in the White House, who cannot be $bought, instead of a senile, grifting/grafting marionette, or a cackling word salad.

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/international-trade-is...

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When will woke Euro elites finally admit, CO2 is a life-creating gas, absolutely essential to grow more flora and fauna, and increase crop yields to feed hungry people?

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-has-a-very-minor-r...

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine
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HIGH COST/kWh OF W/S SYSTEMS FOISTED ONTO A BRAINWASHED PUBLIC 

What is generally not known, the more weather-dependent W/S systems, the less efficient the other, traditional generators, as they inefficiently counteract the increasingly larger ups and downs of W/S output. See URL

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/fuel-and-co2-reduction...

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W/S systems add great cost to the overall delivery of electricity to users; the more W/S systems, the higher the cost/kWh, as proven by the UK and Germany, with the highest electricity rates in Europe, and near-zero, real-growth GDPs
At about 30% W/S, the entire system hits an increasingly thicker concrete wall, operationally and cost wise.

UK and Germany have hit the wall, more and more hours each day.
The cost of electricity delivered to users increased with each additional W/S/B system

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Base-load nuclear, gas and coal plants are the only rational way forward, plus the additional CO2 is very beneficial for additional flora and fauna growth and increased crop yields to feed hungry people.

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine

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Subsidies shift costs from project Owners to ratepayers, taxpayers, government debt:

1) Federal and state tax credits, up to 50% (Community tax credit of 10 percent - Federal tax credit of 30 percent - State tax credit and other incentives of up to 10%);

2) 5-y Accelerated Depreciation write off of the entire project;

3) Loan interest deduction

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The subsidies reduce the owning and operating cost of a project by 50%, which means electricity can be sold at 50% less than it costs to produce.

Utilities pay 15 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from fixedoffshore wind systems

Utilities pay 18 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from floating offshore wind

Utilities pay 12 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from larger solar systems

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Excluded costs, at a future 30% W/S annual penetration on the grid, based on UK and German experience: 

- Onshore grid expansion/reinforcement to connect distributed W/S systems, about 2 c/kWh

- A fleet of traditional power plants to quickly counteract W/S variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, which leads to more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh

- A fleet of traditional power plants to provide electricity during 1) low-wind periods, 2) high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place, and 3) low solar periods during mornings, evenings, at night, snow/ice on panels, which leads to more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh

- Pay W/S system Owners for electricity they could have produced, if not curtailed, about 1 c/kWh

- Importing electricity at high prices, when W/S output is low, 1 c/kWh

- Exporting electricity at low prices, when W/S output is high, 1 c/kWh

- Disassembly on land and at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites, about 2 c/kWh

Some of these values exponentially increase as more W/S systems are added to the grid
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The economic/financial insanity and environmental damage of W/S/Batteries is off the charts.

No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in such big do-do

That economy has been tied into knots by inane people.

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YOUR tax dollars are building these projects so YOU will have much higher electric bills.

Remove YOUR tax dollars using your vote, and none of these projects would be built, and YOUR electric bills would be lower

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BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGING
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital...

by Willem Post

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Utility-scale, battery system pricing usually is not made public, but for this system it was.

Neoen, in western Australia, has just turned on its 219 MW/ 877 MWh Tesla Megapack battery, the largest in western Australia.

Ultimately, it will be a 560 MW/2,240 MWh battery system, $1,100,000,000/2,240,000 kWh = $491/kWh, delivered as AC, late 2024 pricing. Smaller capacity systems will cost much more than $500/kWh

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Annual Cost of Megapack Battery Systems; 2023 pricing
Assume a system rated 45.3 MW/181.9 MWh, and an all-in turnkey cost of $104.5 million, per Example 2
Amortize bank loan for 50% of $104.5 million at 6.5%/y for 15 years, $5.484 million/y
Pay Owner return of 50% of $104.5 million at 10%/y for 15 years, $6.765 million/y (10% due to high inflation)
Lifetime (Bank + Owner) payments 15 x (5.484 + 6.765) = $183.7 million
Assume battery daily usage for 15 years at 10%, and loss factor = 1/(0.9 *0.9)
Battery lifetime output = 15 y x 365 d/y x 181.9 MWh x 0.1, usage x 1000 kWh/MWh = 99,590,250 kWh to HV grid; 122,950,926 kWh from HV grid; 233,606,676 kWh loss
(Bank + Owner) payments, $183.7 million / 99,590,250 kWh = 184.5 c/kWh
Less 50% subsidies (tax credits, 5-y depreciation, loan interest deduction) is 92.3c/kWh

Subsidies shift costs from project Owners to ratepayers, taxpayers, government debt
At 10% throughput, (Bank + Owner) cost, 92.3 c/kWh
At 40% throughput, (Bank + Owner) cost, 23.1 c/kWh
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Excluded costs/kWh: 1) O&M; 2) system aging, 1.5%/y, 3) 20% HV grid-to-HV grid loss, 4) grid extension/reinforcement to connect battery systems, 5) downtime of parts of the system, 6) decommissioning in year 15, i.e., disassembly, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites. Excluded costs would add at least 15 c/kWh
 

COMMENTS ON CALCULATION

Almost all existing battery systems operate at less than 10%, per EIA annual reports i.e., new systems would operate at about 92.4 + 15 = 107.4 c/kWh. They are used to stabilize the grid, i.e., frequency control and counteracting up/down W/S outputs. If 40% throughput, 23.1 + 15 = 38.1 c/kWh. 

A 4-h battery system costs 38.1 c/kWh of throughput, if operated at a duty factor of 40%.

That is on top of the cost/kWh of the electricity taken from the HV grid to feed the batteries

Up to 40% could occur by absorbing midday solar peaks and discharging during late-afternoon/early-evening, which occur every day in California and other sunny states. The more solar systems, the greater the peaks.

See URL for Megapacks required for a one-day wind lull in New England

40% throughput is close to Tesla’s recommendation of 60% maximum throughput, i.e., not charging above 80% full and not discharging below 20% full, to achieve a 15-y life, with normal aging.

Tesla’s recommendation was not heeded by the Owners of the Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia. They excessively charged/discharged the system. After a few years, they added Megapacks to offset rapid aging of the original system, and added more Megapacks to increase the rating of the expanded system.

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-hornsdale-power-res...

Regarding any project, the bank and Owner have to be paid, no matter what. I amortized the bank loan and Owner’s investment

Divide total payments over 15 years by the throughput during 15 years, you get c/kWh, as shown.

There is about a 20% round-trip loss, from HV grid to 1) step-down transformer, 2) front-end power electronics, 3) into battery, 4) out of battery, 5) back-end power electronics, 6) step-up transformer, to HV grid, i.e., you draw about 50 units from the HV grid to deliver about 40 units to the HV grid, because of A-to-Z system losses. That gets worse with aging.

A lot of people do not like these c/kWh numbers, because they have been repeatedly told by self-serving folks, battery Nirvana is just around the corner.

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NOTE: Aerial photos of large-scale battery systems with many Megapacks, show many items of equipment, other than the Tesla supply, such as step-down/step-up transformers, switchgear, connections to the grid, land, access roads, fencing, security, site lighting, i.e., the cost of the Tesla supply is only one part of the battery system cost at a site.

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NOTE: Battery system turnkey capital costs and electricity storage costs likely will be much higher in 2023 and future years, than in 2021 and earlier years, due to: 1) increased inflation rates, 2) increased interest rates, 3) supply chain disruptions, which delay projects and increase costs, 4) increased energy prices, such as of oil, gas, coal, electricity, etc., 5) increased materials prices, such as of tungsten, cobalt, lithium, copper, manganese, etc., 6) increased labor rates.

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FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND IN NORWAY 

Equinor, a Norwegian company, put in operation, 11 Hywind, floating offshore wind turbines, each 8 MW, for a total of 88 MW, in the North Sea. The wind turbines are supplied by Siemens, a German company

Production will be about 88 x 8766 x 0.5, claimed lifetime capacity factor = 385,704 MWh/y, which is about 35% of the electricity used by 2 nearby Norwegian oil rigs, which cost at least $1.0 billion each.

On an annual basis, the existing diesel and gas-turbine generators on the rigs, designed to provide 100% of the rigs electricity requirements, 24/7/365, will provide only 65%, i.e., the wind turbines have 100% back up.

The generators will counteract the up/down output of the wind turbines, on a less-than-minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365

The generators will provide almost all the electricity during low-wind periods, and 100% during high-wind periods, when rotors are feathered and locked.

The capital cost of the entire project was about 8 billion Norwegian Kroner, or about $730 million, as of August 2023, when all 11 units were placed in operation, or $730 million/88 MW = $8,300/kW. See URL

That cost was much higher than the estimated 5 billion NOK in 2019, i.e., 60% higher

The project is located about 70 miles from Norway, which means minimal transport costs of the entire supply to the erection sites

The project produces electricity at about 42 c/kWh, no subsidies, at about 21 c/kWh, with 50% subsidies 

Subsidies shift costs from project Owners to ratepayers, taxpayers, government debt

In Norway, all work associated with oil rigs is very expensive.

Three shifts of workers are on the rigs for 6 weeks, work 60 h/week, and get 6 weeks off with pay, and are paid well over $150,000/y, plus benefits.

If Norwegian units were used in Maine, the production costs would be even higher in Maine, because of the additional cost of transport of almost the entire supply, including specialized ships and cranes, across the Atlantic Ocean, plus

A high voltage cable would be hanging from each unit, until it reaches bottom, say about 200 to 500 feet. 

The cables would need some type of flexible support system
The cables would be combined into several cables to run horizontally to shore, for at least 25 to 30 miles, to several onshore substations, to the New England high voltage grid.

https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/north-sea-europe/arti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_wind_turbine

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NUCLEAR PLANTS TOO EXPENSIVE? 

In France, the turnkey cost of the 1,600 MW Flamanville plant was $13.7 billion, or $8,563/installed MW

Plants built by Russia, China and South Korea are about $5,500/installed MW

Expensive nuclear plant building is strictly a "rules-based" Western thing.

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Nuclear Plants by Russia

According to the IAEA, during the first half of 2023, a total of 407 nuclear reactors are in operation at power plants across the world, with a total capacity at about 370,000 MW

Nuclear was 2546 TWh, or 9.2%, of world electricity production in 2022

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/batteries-in-new-england

Rosatom, a Russian Company, is building more nuclear reactors than any other country in the world, according to data from the Power Reactor Information System of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA.

The data show, a total of 58 large-scale nuclear power reactors are currently under construction worldwide, of which 23 are being built by Russia.

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In Egypt, 4 reactors, each 1,200 MW = 4,800 MW for $28.75 billion, or about $5,990/kW, 

As per a bilateral agreement, signed in 2015, approximately 85% of it is financed by Russia, and to be paid for by Egypt under a 22-year loan with an interest rate of 3%.
That cost is at least 40% less than US/UK/EU

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In Turkey, 4 reactors, each 1,200 MW = 4,800 MW for $20 billion, or about $4,200/kW, entirely financed by Russia. The plant will be owned and operated by Rosatom

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In India, 6 VVER-1000 reactors, each 1,000 MW = 6,000 MW at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

Capital cost about $15 billion. Units 1, 2, 3 and 4 are in operation, units 5 and 6 are being constructed

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In Iran, Rosatom started site preparation for a nuclear power plant at the Bushehr site.

Phase 1: Unit 1 went on line in 2012.

Phase 2: 2 VVER-1000 units, each 1050 Mwe. Construction started March 2017. Units 2 and 3 to be completed in 2024 and 2026.

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In Bangladesh: 2 VVER-1200 reactors = 2400 MW at the Rooppur Power Station

Capital cost $12.65 billion is 90% funded by a loan from the Russian government. The two units generating 2400 MW are planned to be operational in 2024 and 2025. Rosatom will operate the units for the first year before handing over to Bangladeshi operators. Russia will supply the nuclear fuel and take back and reprocess spent nuclear fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooppur_Nuclear_Power_Plant

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Russia is the only country with nuclear powered ice breakers.

The biggest ones steadily go through 7 METERS of ice.

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Rosatom, created in 2007 by combining several Russian companies, usually provides full service during the entire project life, such as training, new fuel bundles, refueling, waste processing and waste storage in Russia, etc., because the various countries likely do not have the required systems and infrastructures

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Remember, these nuclear plants reliably produce steady electricity, at reasonable cost/kWh, and have near-zero CO2 emissions

They have about 0.90 capacity factors, and last 60 to 80 years

Nuclear does not need counteracting plants. They can be designed as load-following, as some are in France

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Wind: Offshore wind systems produce variable, unreliable power, at very high cost/kWh, and are far from CO2-free, on a mine-to-hazardous landfill basis.
They have lifetime capacity factors, on average, of about 0.40; about 0.45 in very windy places

They last about 15 to 20 years in a salt water environment 

They require:

1) a fleet of quick-reacting power plants to counteract the up/down wind outputs, on a less-than-minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365,

2) major expansion/reinforcement of electric grids to connect the wind systems to load centers,

3) a lot of land and sea area,

4) curtailment payments, i.e., pay owners for what they could have produced

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Major Competitors: Rosatom’s direct competitors, according to PRIS data, are three Chinese companies: CNNC, CSPI and CGN.
They are building 22 reactors, but it should be noted, they are being built primarily inside China, and the Chinese partners are building five of them together with Rosatom.

American and European companies are lagging behind Rosatom, by a wide margin,” Alexander Uvarov, a director at the Atom-info Center and editor-in-chief at the atominfo.ru website, told TASS.

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UK, GERMANY AND NORWAY  

Norway gets 90% from hydro reservoir plants and 10% from west coast windmills.
Because of long distances, there is little connection between the north and south grid.
Any draw by the UK during W/S underproduction affects the south grid.
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The grid is pumped by generators to a voltage with 50-cycle electromagnetic waves which travel at near the speed of light. Electrons do not travel. They just vibrate at 50 Hz
Any UK underproduction, resulting in voltage drops, is immediately sensed about 800 miles away, and compensated for, by automatically opening the water valves to hydro turbines in Norway.
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A few years ago, during a W/S lull, Norway oversupplied Germany and the UK, which resulted in much higher wholesale prices in the south grid, too low water levels in reservoirs, rationing, aka blackouts/brownouts, and lots of Norwegians with mandated EVs and mandated heat pumps being peed off.
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This time the W/S lull happened again, and, just like that, the ruling-party government fell. A new ruling-party government was installed, which may, or may not, remedy the situation. INSTANT DEMOCRACY.

We should have it in the US, instead of endless lying, obfuscation, grandstanding, obstruction, etc., for up to 4 years, or, God forbid, 8 years

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NOTE: I lived in Norway for 3 years. My brother-in-law, a managing director, worked at Norsk Hydro, which provides almost all hydro power in Norway. We talk shop. He thinks the nutcases in Oslo should be exiled to Nova Zembla.

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Some Articles for Reference

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Net Zero by 2050 is a Suicide Pact, CO2 ppm is near its lowest level in 600 million years

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/net-zero-by-2050-is-a-...

By Willem Post

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CO2 Has a Very Minor Role in the Atmosphere

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-has-a-very-minor-r...

By Willem Post

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We Are in a CO2 Famine

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine

By Willem Post

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Ban the Expensive, Dysfunctional Offshore Wind Turbine Fiasco

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/ban-the-dysfunctional-...

by Willem Post

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A Program for a Greater America with a Much Smaller Federal Government

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greate...

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International Trade is a Dog-Eat-Dog Business

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/international-trade-is...

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SOME HARD-HITTING COMMENTS  

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/some-hard-hitting-comm...