Nantucket Wind Turbine Worst Ever Built

Nantucket Wind Turbine Worst Ever Built Another Yugo 

The Nantucket wind project was originally estimated to be around $2.5 billion now over $3.5 billion.  The project was expected to reach its full power potential by mid-2024. Construction may not resume until they can prove these new record-length hybrid blades won't continue to fail.
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Once completed, the project will consist of 62 wind turbines rated at 13 megawatts each.
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The project would have had enough energy for 400000 homes at a maximum wind speed of around 44 miles per hour. When there is little wind they don't power any homes. The turbines produce power on a scale from around 6 miles per hour to shutting down in high winds. Turbines have parasitic power loss of up to 15 percent. The turbines need their power to heat the blades in the winter, backup batteries, air conditioning, computers, and anything a regular power plant needs like shutting down for maintenance. 
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Besides an increase in the project, there is no incoming revenue. If each home paid $100.00 monthly, it would equal $ 4,000,0000.00 per month. One year equals  $480,000,000 which equals another half billion loss.
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On July 13, 2024, a blade broke off at the Nantucket project spewing 50 tons of fiberglass, balsa wood, and microplastics. The clean-up cost remains unknown and no blades are spinning. The debris spread over several states' beaches at the height of tourism everyone lost money. 
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The fishing industry off the coast of New England will more than likely end up in class-action litigation over loss of income. Falmouth, Massachusetts had 11 lawsuits and additional appeals over the two town-owned land-based wind turbines before they were removed in 2022. They were referred to as the last two Yugos on the lot because they were such a failure.    
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A ship called the ROLLDOCK SUN left New Bedford with two blades on the way to Cherbourg France. The Bureau of Safety and Environment, GE Vernova, and Vineyard Wind had no comment. The ship arrives in Cherbourg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 
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The two blades may be taken for field tests to the North Sea. The 107-meter hybrid blades were never tested as one piece for torsion or a field test. No one knows what would happen in a New England winter storm or hurricane.
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Governmental authorities after the Nantucket blade disaster should require a full winter test of two Canadian-made blades in the North Sea before installation begins next year.
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Within 6 months 1 blade failed off Nantucket and 2 at Dogger Bank, Europe. A six percent-a-year failure rate is unacceptable.
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The Massachusetts residential and commercial land-based wind agenda was a disaster. The ocean wind project has all the earmarks of another land-based catastrophe.  
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Every industry has a Yugo the most wretched car ever to operate on American highways. The Nantucket Wind project is a Yugo or a 1957 Ford Edsel that debuted 67 years ago.  
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The project overall is a loser.  
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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

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"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."

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