Biden Administration Announces: "We Want to See Beautiful Offshore Wind Turbine Farms by 2030" and is Investing $12 Bil Annually

[AFrench2]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

--------In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.--------

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy. They want it to look like this:

 

[Auld Phart]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

-In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy.

Well, no Kennedys in Congress, so it might pass.

 

[Decus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

-In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy.

You might want to watch a documentary made by an environmentalist to look behind the curtain:

Planet of the Humans | By Jeff Gibbs, Executive Producer Michael Moore

This eco-documentary takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices.

planetofthehumans.com

.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Insanity

 

[blackhawk]

When a hurricane comes along what then?

 

[Oddball]

Weapons grade retardation.

 

[MarcATL]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

--------In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.--------

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy. They want it to look like this:
View attachment 473947

Oh this is fantastic news!

 

[Obiwan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

--------In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.--------

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy. They want it to look like this:
View attachment 473947

Darn, they sure are pretty....

Maybe we should put a bunch of those wind turbines just offshore of Obungles' house in Martha's Vinyard where he can enjoy the view!!!!!

 

[the other mike]

Also you get $100 a year for every one of these you put in your front yard. I already ordered 10,000 of them from the Philippines for about $0.10 each.

 

[White 6]

Doubt if I can see them from Tennessee, of course we already have some of the lowest electric rates in the country.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

--------In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.--------

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy. They want it to look like this:
View attachment 473947

NIMBY!

 

[skews13]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

-In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy.

Well, no Kennedys in Congress, so it might pass.

Do you have any idea how many electricians, apprentices, helpers, and supporting trades those projects employ?

How much they pay?

Or commercial solar projects?

Let someone who has worked them help you out.

A hell of a lot more than all fossil fuel jobs, and pipeline jobs combined.

Electricians make $8000-$20,000 a month, depending on the project. Apprentices, make $20-$35 an hour depending on the project. Helpers make $600-$1000 a week depending on the project.

Those are the on shore jobs. The off shore jobs pay more.

Once renewable energy installations hit the residential market at a faster pace than they are now, there's your green energy economy, and it will be huge for decades to come.

Anybody that hasn't grasped this fact yet is an idiot. And trust me when I tell you, none of the guys currently working those jobs, give a rats ass what the naysayers think.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

-In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy.

Well, no Kennedys in Congress, so it might pass.

Do you have any idea how many electricians, apprentices, helpers, and supporting trades those projects employ?

How much they pay?

Or commercial solar projects?

Let someone who has worked them help you out.

A hell of a lot more than all fossil fuel jobs, and pipeline jobs combined.

Electricians make $8000-$20,000 a month, depending on the project. Apprentices, make $20-$35 an hour depending on the project. Helpers make $600-$1000 a week depending on the project.

Those are the on shore jobs. The off shore jobs pay more.

Once renewable energy installations hit the residential market at a faster pace than they are now, there's your green energy economy, and it will be huge for decades to come.

Anybody that hasn't grasped this fact yet is an idiot. And trust me when I tell you, none of the guys currently working those jobs, give a rats ass what the naysayers think.

So, the poor, and everybody else can expect outrageous electric Bill's.

Thanks Obiden you f*cking idiot!

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

-In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy.

Well, no Kennedys in Congress, so it might pass.

Do you have any idea how many electricians, apprentices, helpers, and supporting trades those projects employ?

How much they pay?

Or commercial solar projects?

Let someone who has worked them help you out.

A hell of a lot more than all fossil fuel jobs, and pipeline jobs combined.

Electricians make $8000-$20,000 a month, depending on the project. Apprentices, make $20-$35 an hour depending on the project. Helpers make $600-$1000 a week depending on the project.

Those are the on shore jobs. The off shore jobs pay more.

Once renewable energy installations hit the residential market at a faster pace than they are now, there's your green energy economy, and it will be huge for decades to come.

Anybody that hasn't grasped this fact yet is an idiot. And trust me when I tell you, none of the guys currently working those jobs, give a rats ass what the naysayers think.

So, the poor, and everybody else can expect outrageous electric Bill's.

Thanks Obiden you f*cking idiot!

Do you understand basic economics Frenchy?

 

[Obiwan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

-In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy.

Well, no Kennedys in Congress, so it might pass.

Do you have any idea how many electricians, apprentices, helpers, and supporting trades those projects employ?

How much they pay?

Or commercial solar projects?

Let someone who has worked them help you out.

A hell of a lot more than all fossil fuel jobs, and pipeline jobs combined.

Electricians make $8000-$20,000 a month, depending on the project. Apprentices, make $20-$35 an hour depending on the project. Helpers make $600-$1000 a week depending on the project.

Those are the on shore jobs. The off shore jobs pay more.

Once renewable energy installations hit the residential market at a faster pace than they are now, there's your green energy economy, and it will be huge for decades to come.

Anybody that hasn't grasped this fact yet is an idiot. And trust me when I tell you, none of the guys currently working those jobs, give a rats ass what the naysayers think.

So that's where some of the money went when Obama's Green Energy scams went bankrupt....

Get Ready for More Obama-Era Green Energy Scams | RealClearPolitics


With Democrats about to control all the levers of power in Washington, the biggest winners might be the wind and solar companies. These firms' stocks continue to surge mostly because President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to invest several hundred billion dollars in green energy through a pipeline of taxpayer-funded grants, loans, tax credits and loan guarantees.

This game plan looks suspiciously like a replay of the litany of green "stimulus" fiascoes that Biden piloted as vice president back in 2009 with the $800 billion Obama stimulus plan. The experiment in the government as an investment banker belly-flopped with embarrassing failures from Solyndra, Fisker Automotive and Abound Solar. Taxpayers lost billions of dollars on these lemons.


One of these disasters, the Crescent Dunes thermal solar power plant, located in the Nevada desert, is still embroiled in court battles to sort out who pays for all the losses. The Obama administration first started showering this project with money beginning in 2011, with a $700 million federal loan. The Department of Energy boasted that the facility was supposed to provide half a million megawatt-hours of electric power every year. Not quite. Thanks to construction design flaws, faulty equipment and hapless management, Crescent Dunes has never come close to its production target. Then, in 2017, Crescent Dunes came knocking on Treasury's door again, this time receiving $275 million in cash grants instead of tax credits on top of $250 million in private capital. Even with this second round of life support, the plant had to shut down. Last month, the bankruptcy court approved the entire operation's Chapter 11 reorganization plan.

But the story doesn't end there. Under the settlement terms, taxpayers will only see $200 million recouped of the remaining $425 million still unpaid from the Department of Energy's loan. The rest will be forgiven. Some of the loan losses could be recouped if the plant hits profitability. Expert testimony in the court proceedings concluded this outcome is unlikely given its track record so far. The bottom line: Expect taxpayers to swallow hundreds of millions of dollars of losses here.


What is especially galling about this whole misadventure is the Spanish firm Grupo Cobra, which botched the construction, received full payment to build the facility. The Department of Energy has reached a deal with Grupo Cobra that forgives the $225 million of outstanding loans and allows Grupo Cobra to become sole owners of the project. The total public and private investor losses could approach half a billion dollars when all is said and done. Meanwhile, a foreign company is going to walk away with sole ownership of a U.S. solar plant. Grupo Cobra is getting rewarded for its incompetence.

Renewable energy scams such as Crescent Dunes remind us that these "public-private" projects rarely produce much electric power, and they don't save the planet from climate change. But they do make millionaires out of lobbyists and fraudsters. My friends at the Heritage Foundation have counted 25 separate green energy projects, each with multimillion-dollar taxpayer losses like those from the Obama era. My advice to the Biden team is the old saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

 

[AFrench2]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

-In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy.

Well, no Kennedys in Congress, so it might pass.

Do you have any idea how many electricians, apprentices, helpers, and supporting trades those projects employ?

How much they pay?

Or commercial solar projects?

Let someone who has worked them help you out.

A hell of a lot more than all fossil fuel jobs, and pipeline jobs combined.

Electricians make $8000-$20,000 a month, depending on the project. Apprentices, make $20-$35 an hour depending on the project. Helpers make $600-$1000 a week depending on the project.

Those are the on shore jobs. The off shore jobs pay more.

Once renewable energy installations hit the residential market at a faster pace than they are now, there's your green energy economy, and it will be huge for decades to come.

Anybody that hasn't grasped this fact yet is an idiot. And trust me when I tell you, none of the guys currently working those jobs, give a rats ass what the naysayers think.

So, the poor, and everybody else can expect outrageous electric Bill's.

Thanks Obiden you f*cking idiot!

Do you understand basic economics Frenchy?

I understand the parts that I enjoy. For example, I am a Keynesian...but you already know that because I'm a liberal and we believe in government spending.

Keynesian economics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Keynesian economists generally argue that aggregate demand is volatile and unstable and that, consequently, a market economy often experiences inefficient macroeconomic outcomes—in the forms of recession, when demand is low, and inflation, when demand is high. Further, they argue that these unsettling cycles can be mitigated by economic policy responses coordinated between government and central banking. In particular, fiscal policy actions (taken by the government) and monetary policy actions (taken by the central bank), can help stabilize economic output, inflation, and unemployment over the business cycle. Keynesian economists generally advocate a market economy – predominantly private sector, but with an active role for government intervention during recessions and depressions.

 

[AFrench2]

Weren't you around when FDR and Keynes were still alive? Both of them were part of the New Deal/World War II economy...you know that. Now stay on topic of the wind farms, Sparky

 

[JGalt]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

--------In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.--------

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy. They want it to look like this:
View attachment 473947

That's gonna put one hell of a bite in someone's electric bills.

 

[Auld Phart]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

-In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.-

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy.

Well, no Kennedys in Congress, so it might pass.

Do you have any idea how many electricians, apprentices, helpers, and supporting trades those projects employ?

How much they pay?

Or commercial solar projects?

Let someone who has worked them help you out.

A hell of a lot more than all fossil fuel jobs, and pipeline jobs combined.

Electricians make $8000-$20,000 a month, depending on the project. Apprentices, make $20-$35 an hour depending on the project. Helpers make $600-$1000 a week depending on the project.

Those are the on shore jobs. The off shore jobs pay more.

Once renewable energy installations hit the residential market at a faster pace than they are now, there's your green energy economy, and it will be huge for decades to come.

Anybody that hasn't grasped this fact yet is an idiot. And trust me when I tell you, none of the guys currently working those jobs, give a rats ass what the naysayers think.

Odd the Kennedys didn't think of that when the idea came up years ago.

(They didn't want those eyesores off their coastline)

Wind Farm? Not Off My Back Porch - ABC News (go.com)

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/29/biden-wind-power

The White House on Monday detailed an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along the East Coast and jump-start the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, saying it hoped to trigger a massive clean-energy effort in the fight against climate change.

The plan would generate 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To accomplish that, the Biden administration said, it would speed permitting for projects off the East Coast, invest in research and development, provide low-interest loans to industry and fund changes to U.S. ports.

The initiative represents a major stretch for the United States. The country has only one offshore wind project online at this time, generating 30 megawatts, off Rhode Island.

--------In addition, they will partner with corporate America to help map out data regarding ocean climate and bio-diversity.--------

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entered a memorandum of agreement with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted. Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and maintained effectively.

Well, looks like they want to move towards cleaner energy. They want it to look like this:
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Ari Fleischer accuses John Kerry of climate change hypocrisy: Opposed a wind project 'because he didn’t want to see the view outside his window' (msn.com)

“Remember, he is the man who opposed a wind project on the Nantucket Sound because he didn’t want to see the view outside his window,” Fleischer said on Fox News, following Kerry’s appearance at a White House briefing on climate change on Wednesday.

You can sure bet it wont happen in the upper north east where the billionaire's wife Heinz-Kerry lives or the brown turd Obammy...Everywhere else is okay, but not near them.