Offshore Wind Turbine Agenda Continues To Fail - Whales Dying

Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result 
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In 1979 a single 2-megawatt wind turbine was installed in Boone, North Carolina. By 1981 neighbors had complained about noise now defined as infra-sound and the gearbox drive train failed. The project failed.
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In 2010 and 2012 Falmouth, Massachusetts installed several similar size 1.5-megawatt land-based wind turbines. The turbines caused noise problems to residential homeowners and had gearbox drive train problems, The turbines were removed in 2022.
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Massachusetts had a land-based wind turbine agenda of 2000 megawatts of land-based wind by the year 2020 an absolute failure.
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In 2016 Block Island, Rhode Island an ocean wind farm demonstration project in 2021 required months of maintenance most of the summer and was the beginning of whale deaths that have followed wind turbine construction on the East Coast since 2016. The Block Island 5 wind turbines were purchased for 500 million in 2018 or 100 million for each.
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The Block Island onshore submarine cable has had a history of outages costing electric rate-payers 30 million dollars. The ocean floor can shift every six months or whenever a large storm takes place. The shifts increase the risk of corrosion and damage with no chance of being insured. 
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Whale deaths have raised questions over how badly the ocean environment will be affected and how much of a loss to the fishing industry and jobs.
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New England states after the lessons learned at Block Island now want to place hundreds of megawatt wind turbines in the ocean that produce intermittent power requiring fossil fuel backup plants, acres of battery backup plants, and acres of high voltage direct current to alternating current caustic loud electric substations. 
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In addition, the proposed ocean wind turbine cable routes in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and Falmouth, Massachusetts require miles of sets of buried 800-megawatt cables through residential streets to get to electric grid locations. The residential routes are being used to save offshore wind companies money for submarine cables to the large cities that require the power.
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The output of the old Pilgrim nuclear plant was 780 megawatts. No residential homeowner wants 800 megawatts buried outside their home which will make their property unsaleable. 
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Commercial megawatt wind is failing and has been failing for well over 40 years and today offshore wind is failing again. 
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Note # 72 Whale Deaths Opinion Source: The Bergen Record November 8, 2023 

 

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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."

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