Auction of offshore sites for wind farms

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Would replace a lot of fossil fueled power generation.

The Biden administration's sale of offshore wind development rights off the coasts of New York and New Jersey drew a record $4.37 billion in high bids from developers that included major European energy companies.

The auction, which began on Wednesday and stretched into Friday afternoon, is the first offshore wind lease sale under U.S. President Joe Biden, who sees the expansion of the industry as a way to tackle climate change and create jobs.

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The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which oversees energy development in federal waters, offered six leases across 488,201 acres (197,568 hectares) between New York's Long Island and New Jersey, an area known as the New York Bight.


By the end of the auction, total high bids on the six blocks amounted to $4.37 billion. That is more than three times the revenue received from all U.S. offshore oil and gas lease auctions over the past five years.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-offshore-wind-auction-nears-4bln-third-day-bidding-2022-02-25/?utm_content=199944331&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-403019655

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1. Bullshit. Wind turbines off our coast will, besides trashing the benthic environment, increase...

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...long term dependence on dangerous fossil fuels, just as they have in every fucking single place on the planet where this awful scheme has been put in place.

Over 4 billion dollars to build destructive industrial equipment on the sea floor that will be in ruins in 25 years is a disgrace.

How is it, with Germany now burning coal, (Carbon Intensity 484 g CO2/kwh (1:08 AM 3/7/22) Denmark is burning coal (Carbon Intensity 341 g CO2/kwh (1:08 AM 3/7/22) that people still repeat the nonsense that wind energy reduces the use of dangerous fossil fuels?

As of this writing, the capacity utilization of all the wind turbines in Germany is 11.62%; in Denmark, 11.24%.

There is a reason that these countries feature the highest electricity prices in the OECD.

Now, the same people who have been mindlessly cheering for this disgrace want to fuck the poorest people in New Jersey by driving their power prices through the roof:

We've spend trillions of dollars on solar and wind.

The tragic result is here:


March 05: 419.17 ppm
March 04: 418.74 ppm
March 03: 419.06 ppm
March 02: 419.03 ppm
March 01: 419.52 ppm
Last Updated: March 6, 2022

Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2 (Accessed 3/6/22, 7:17PM EST US)

The average reading for the week beginning February 27, 2022 at the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory, week 8, is 24.66 ppm higher than week 8 of 2012.

Congrats.

Let's be clear: It's an experimental irrefutable fact that the wind and solar fantasy is not now, and has never been and is not now about climate change or the environment. It's about satisfying the anti-nuclear paranoids who shit their pants every time in their little brains they even imagine, in their fertile but toxic imaginations, the escape of radioactivity anywhere, except of course, with respect to their spectacular indifference to the NORM uranium, radium, radon and other products in the uranium decay chain associated with the precious oil, coal, and dangerous natural gas on which every so called "renewable energy" scheme depends.

The statement that wind and solar have anything to do with either climate change or the elimination of dangerous fossil fuels is a Trumpian scale lie. Trump didn't win the election. Putin is not "rescuing" Ukrainians from Nazism. Wind and solar are not about fighting climate change.

It is an experimental fact that throwing vast sums of money, more than the GDP of India, a country with well over a billion people, at solar and wind did not do a damned thing about the rise in the use of dangerous fossil fuels and the continued acceleration of climate change.

Facts matter.

I have written everyone I know in government to oppose this plastic shedding diesel barge dependent crap off the coast of my State.

I will probably lose, but just as history has proved it to be a failure in Denmark and in Germany, the historical result is inevitable.

We will be talking about 430 ppm less than ten years from now.

I congratulate all the anti-nukes, including "I'm not an anti-nuke" anti-nukes," on the grand success of their big lie. Regrettably the result will be, for the environment, every bit as tragic as all the other big lies; in fact, as Germany and Denmark, and for that matter California show, it already is tragic.

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2. The parts I like in this story

By the end of the auction, total high bids on the six blocks amounted to $4.37 billion. That is more than three times the revenue received from all U.S. offshore oil and gas lease auctions over the past five years.

One auction brings in more than 5 yrs of offshore oil and gas leases???

Windfarms in the NY and NJ area takes the pressure off of building new nat gas pipelines to the Northeast.

During the last few years, inadequate infrastructure to transport natural gas has at times affected the ability of natural-gas-fired plants to get the fuel they need to perform. This energy-security risk has become a pressing concern in New England, considering the major role natural-gas-fired generation plays in keeping the lights on and setting prices for wholesale electricity.

https://www.iso-ne.com/about/what-we-do/in-depth/natural-gas-infrastructure-constraints

I like the production of electricity that doesn't require strip mining or fracking for fuel.

Most older wind farm recycle and replace existing windmill with bigger and better models.