Where the cost of onshore wind power is staggering, the cost of offshore wind power is astronomical. Of course, in either case, in the absence of massive and perpetual subsidies, there would never have been a single turbine constructed on land or at sea, ever, period. New York State’ Governor, Andrew Cuomo is just the latest in a long line of politicians in bed with crony capitalists the wind and solar ‘industries’. His obsession with wind power is sending New York’s power prices into orbit. And his plan to spear thousands of turbines off the New Jersey coast has incensed local fishermen who are literally told developers to get f*%#@d: Deepwater in Deep Trouble: Fishermen Tell Off-Shore Wind Farm Developers to F@*#K Off The kind of character that opposes wind turbines in their own backyard – always prefacing their lukewarm and self-interested opposition with the phrase “I’m all in favour of renewables, but… – when staring down developers ready to wreck their little patch of paradise often finishes their ‘argument’ by blurting out “well, why don’t they just stick them out at sea?!” Well, there’s a reason that they prefer to plant them in some dimwit’s back paddock that’s suitably close to […]
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August 30, 2018 at 02:30AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 