Vineyard Wind Blades Depart USA Despite Nantucket Investigation

Cherbourg France LM Wind Company 

Vineyard Wind Blades Depart USA Despite Nantucket Investigation 
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In 2019, GE and LM Wind developed a new hybrid blade that was easy and cheaper to produce. The blade is 107 meters or 350 feet long using much less carbon fiber than the competition. 
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Federal and state officials set unrealistic renewable energy goals using offshore wind. The first mistake was bypassing torsion tests on the large blades because no test sites worldwide were over 90 meters or 300 feet. 
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Massachusetts state officials agreed to cut a prototype blade into two parts and make certification by extrapolating, (assuming), figures from the two parts. In addition, after the blade was tested and certified it never received any field tests. The certified and tested prototype hybrid blade led to the production of 150 blades in Canada.
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LM Wind Company formerly LM Glasfiber of Denmark 1997 had issues with torsion failures. Several stress cracks appeared on their blades subjected to violent edgewise oscillation.
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On July 13, 2024, a blade broke off on a Vineyard Wind turbine off Nantucket dumping up to 60 tons of microplastics, fiberglass, and balsa wood over beaches of the East Coast. 
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) oddly ordered the offshore wind energy company to "conduct a site-specific study that evaluates the environmental harm and other potential damage flowing from" the blade failure. 
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The federal agency order is of course backward. If a plane crashed would the federal government order the plane company to investigate itself? 
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From October 5 to October 18, 2024, the New Bedford Light, Massachusetts news, and La Presse De La Manche in Cherbourg France have been following the movement of six GE/LM Canadian-made blades from New Bedford to France. They get no response. 
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The title of the French news story :
The strange journey of these six wind turbine blades sent from the United States to LM Wind Power in Cherbourg 
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No comments on the blade transfers: 
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GE Vernova: The worst possible response: No comment on this matter.
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Vineyard Wind: The weekend has gotten in the way of the information flow

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BSEE: A BSEE spokesperson did not answer questions and said by email that the agency has no new information. Disappointing

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Reference 
A full-scale test is required as part of the wind turbine blade certification. Vineyard Wind blades were never tested with torsion 
 
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Comment by Willem Post on October 25, 2024 at 10:11am

Trump was a political neophyte stepping into the lion’s den of the Obama-leaning federal bureaucracy
Some of his “best” people turned out to be not his soul mates.
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The US needs such people near the top.

A prosecutor is either out to get people to build her/his record cases for career purposes, or to make deals with lawyers to get people not convicted, for political purposes.
Harris hitched her body to a 30-y older, married, negro LA mayor to use his political machine to rise in politics in dysfunctional California, which Vermont, etc., are using as a role model.
Harris (dysfunctional “border czar”/Walz (tampons in boys’ bathrooms) are puppets, as are Biden/Harris, of open-border fame.
Biden in-the-basement, a 45-y fixture in DC, was finally removed as a broken puppet, because he could not manage a teleprompter, or a press conference, or a debate, already for several years.
The Democrat party elite summarily replaced him with Harris, who is even less capable than Biden.

Someone recently asked me why I like Trump.
My answer was, I don't like a lot of things about Trump and Harris, but the Trump team is the better choice.
However, this election is not about choosing the most likable person.
This election is about voting between two vastly different ideologies.
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The Trump team represents that future and has proven that they can deliver.
They are patriots to the core.
Trump served his country for 4 years without pay.
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I am voting for the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech.
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I am voting for secure borders and LEGAL immigration.
I am voting for election integrity to include mandatory, unforgeable, voter ID, everyone voting on Election Day (a National Holiday with Pay), no machines, only hand counting, as is done in almost all European countries, where final results are known within days.
I am voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.
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I am voting for doing away with all of the freebies given to the illegals and not providing for the needs of the American citizens and homeless veterans beset by natural disasters (FEMA has no money, because FEMA spent it to fly and coddle illegals from all over to the US).
I am voting for the military & the veterans who fought for this country
I am voting to keep men out of women's sports and tampons out of boy's bathrooms (Tim Waltz).
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America is the greatest country in the world.
The reason so many want to immigrate here
Why would a cabal of extremist Democrats want to change it, if not for increased federal command/control?
I am voting for the Trump team.
I am voting for America.

It is truly amazing how a small, extremist, socialist/communist, Democrat party cabal, with a weaponized federal government, press, and academia, etc., were able to subvert/brainwash the US people this much, for decades, in the land with the First Amendment.
It shows just how brainwashed most of Americans have been.
Those Americans, be they white, negro, hispanic, muslim, etc., are finally awakening from their Corporate Media-induced coma.

We need Trump to be elected by a huge landslide to MAGA the US.
The federal government must not be allowed to engage in any activities not specified in the U.S. Constitution.
That means no NPR, no US Education Department, no US Endowment for the Arts, no US Radio Free Europe, and many other similar activities.
All those activities, if they are to exist, are within the realm and jurisdiction of the Sovereign States.
The federal government would be so much smaller and so much more efficient, with help of RFK, jr. and Elon Musk

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My response to a recent email: Trump appointed 3 conservative judges to the US Supreme Court
These judges are highly qualified scholars of the history of the US Constitution; one of them teaches it in a Law School.

Example: Regarding Roe vs Wade, a PRIOR Supreme Court had made a mistake, by asserting a woman has a legal right to an abortion.
Based on that erroneous ruling more than 30 years ago, various federal laws and rules and regulations were enacted and promulgated.
A national infrastructure of federally-$supported entities, involved with abortion, and reproductive issues, mostly staffed by Democrats, came into being.
However, THE CURRENT Supreme Court determined, nowhere in the US Constitution, etc., is mentioned: 1) abortion and 2) a woman has a legal right to an abortion.
The federal government only has the rights ceded to it by the SOVEREIGN STATES.
Any rights not ceded, stay with the States
That means the States determine the laws, rules and regulations regarding abortion.
The federal government would be involved only if a State violates a civil right, such as discrimination based on race, creed, color, etc., which all States have agreed is forbidden, as they agreed to in the US Constitution.

 

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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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