Offshore Wind 2025 USA

Nantucket Massachusetts 

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In the United States since 2005  it was always clear that while building land-based wind turbines and a pain in the neck to operate them was interesting, they didn’t work. The wind didn’t blow as the test results said it did, or it blew when no one wanted the energy.  The megawatt turbines generated infra sound and shadow flicker causing residential illnesses from lack of sleep. Lacking renewable energy credits and tax equity subsidies wind is a loser in terms of a megawatt generated and the costs associated with that megawatt. The only ones profiting are law firms. 
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The US East Coast offshore units present exponentially many more operational challenges. Politicians fail to understand when they look at the success of offshore wind in, say, Dogger Bank a shoal in the North Sea,  that the littoral regions there are very shallow and have a less harsh environment. 
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Politicians have gambled their political futures built around the canard of wind energy being viable and are now so big they can’t fail. Until they fail. When they do fail and they will fail, the electric rate and taxpayers will pick up the burden of decommissioning the mess they have wrought. 
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Nantucket put itself in a pickle signing offshore wind agreements for chump change. The wealthy summer “residents” loved the offshore wind agenda, and they bragged and virtue signaled over soft cheese spread on water crackers whilst consuming expensive rose’ wine all summer long and into the fall on the Upper East side of Manhattan, when they return from summer sojourn, what good little rich people they are, forget about the private Gulfstream V jet that flew them out there and back. They made a big mistake. 
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Last summer offshore wind planned 62 turbines with 186 blades. After installing 12 turbines one blade broke off on July 13, 2024. The blade spewed 100,000 pounds of microplastics, foam, balsa wood, and fiberglass into the environment. Material for the foreseeable future is still floating up on beaches. An oil spill might clean up at a better rate.
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The Nantucket locals are affected, the economic damage from a shutdown of the south side beaches was eye-popping enough, and ought to cause the locals to raise holy heck and sue through class action litigation. The developers and now the owner-operators should be responsible for property devaluations. The litigation should be done in a manner that makes it uneconomical to continue and sets an example for others, such that it discourages further support and ends the fantasy of offshore wind. 
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The land-based wind studies given to the public before installations had the same problem. You had to find what they left out of the studies not what was in them. The noise studies and types of noise were always missing or stated as human annoyance. Nantucket plans over 260 offshore wind turbines 15 times the size of land-based wind turbines around twenty miles offshore. There is no noise study for Nantucket residents. 
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Whales and dolphins are washing up weekly along the East Coast. The mammals are losing their hearing and are unable to communicate, navigate, or eat crossing into shipping lanes. Hopefully, the deaf dead whales don't float up on your vacation. 
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Environmental groups involved in whale necropsies in most cases over the past few years show they have received hefty contributions from offshore wind developers by just doing a simple Google search. Everyone got a paper bag.  
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Next summer, if you bring your family to beaches around Nantucket, bring a Nylon mat and sneakers so you don't step or sit on fiberglass, and bring a heavy-duty trash bag. After the beach, some thought of eating the famous Nantucket sea scallops exposed to tons of microplastics in the ocean environment should be given. 
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Coincidently if you look up polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons found in oil spills and microplastics being ingested by humans the definitions are similar they both cause cancer. 
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Happy New Year  
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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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"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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