Feds Cut Wind Blade Test Regulations To Achieve Renewable Energy Goals
Note# (There were no survivors on the fishing boat F/V Mistress - perhaps if the Block Island turbines were spaced things might have been different)
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Comment by Willem Post on September 21, 2024 at 10:45am
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Offshore Wind a Suicide Pact
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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/biden-30-000-mw-of-off...
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Massachusetts woke, leftist, deficit-spending, government, supported by lapdog, bought and paid for corporate Media, pushing for rushing dubious testing of pieces of 391-ft long blades, in a 300-ft facility, and using “extrapolation” of test results, to meet Biden/Harris environmentally disastrous, 13 MW, 850-ft-tall offshore wind turbine erection goals, is most irresponsible, because they produce electricity at 15 c/kWh, plus 2 c/kWh for grid re-enforcement and extension, plus 2 c/kWh for quick-reacting plants to counteracting the ups and downs of wind output, on a minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, including filling in during periods when there is almost no wind, which happen throughout the year, and could last 5 to 7 days.
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AN ABSOLUTELY FOOL-PROOF WAY FOR MASSACHUSETTS TO BECOME EVEN MORE UNATTRACTIVE TO INVESTMENTS FROM PRIVATE UNSUBSIDIZED, TAX-PAYING, JOB-CREATING BUSINESSES, as has happened in Germany and the UK
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Their leftist governments making woke energy decisions are having adverse GDP repercussions throughout Europe.
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Regarding grid-spacing of offshore turbines
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The first wind turbine takes energy from the air, which causes condensation, etc., similar to contrails of a plane
The first wind turbine has the highest efficiency, because it has “less-disturbed” air
The following wind turbines all have lesser efficiencies. Old news.
This has been measured by owners, but no published
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Stresses on 390-ft blades become enormous, as they sweep 800 ft circles through variable speed, sometimes gusty, wind fields.
The wind speeds vary from top to bottom and from side to side in each 800-ft circle
That creates huge VARYING, TORSIONAL forces on the blades as they rotate, in addition to all other forces.
This is in no way comparable to much shorter airplane wings.
Extrapolating existing designs for 391-ft blades is not applicable.
The torsional failures of 391-ft blades require complete redesign.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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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