{"id":342321,"date":"2024-09-08T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342321"},"modified":"2024-09-08T16:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T14:38:56","slug":"cfact-report-exposes-maines-massive-floating-wind-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342321","title":{"rendered":"CFACT report exposes Maine\u2019s massive floating wind folly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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July 8, 2013 – Windfloat Floating Offshore Foundation and Vestas V-80 2MW Offshore Wind Turbine, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal. (Photo by Senu Sirnivas \/ NREL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind turbines are inefficient, intermittent, expensive, carry a heavy environmental footprint, and are not up to the task of powering the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leave it to government to find a new way to make offshore wind even less efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the new report from CFACT senior policy advisor David Wojick, Ph.D.,<\/a> revealing the folly of plans to station floating<\/u> wind turbines off the coast of Maine. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wojick reports that<\/strong><\/a> \u201cthe offshore wind facilities will consist of great numbers of \u201cfloating turbines\u201d operating at a scale and degree of reliability that hasn\u2019t been verified to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 in the real world. Such an assumption makes the entire plan not only technologically speculative but also enormously risky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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In addition to these turbines being a poor energy solution that will be vulnerable to hurricanes and other Maine\u2019s massive floating wind folly<\/a> storms, they pose a serious potential threat to marine mammals, including the highly endangered right whale.  Regulatory environmental impact studies have been dangerously incomplete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wojick\u2019s report concludes<\/strong><\/a> that \u201cthe Environmental Assessment does include the leasehold sonar surveys prior to construction. Recent analysis has determined that such surveys are responsible for numerous whale deaths along the Atlantic Coast.  It is therefore imperative the BOEM and NOAA carefully assess the potentially lethal impact of leasehold surveys on whales before any surveys are approved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden\/Harris Orwellian-named \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d, will spend $891 billion, including billions, for these energy boondoggles. Climate ideologues and profiteers will do anything to get their hands on these funds, including floating vulnerable, inefficient wind turbines smack in the middle of the Right Whale\u2019s migration path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A return to energy sanity is long overdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n