Watch Craig Rucker on wind
Craig Rucker on Ladies With Another View on the problems with wind turbines.
Craig Rucker on Ladies With Another View on the problems with wind turbines.
The fly in the floating wind ointment is the "floater."
Empire is about to start driving the enormous steel monopiles that hold the turbine towers, but a new wrinkle has hit the fan.
Given that the blackout occurred on a sunny day and that hydro doesn’t fluctuate with weather, any attribution leaves wind as the only likely contributing culprit.
“It appears that Dominion has unwisely spent money on alternative energy sources that produce expensive electricity. Would it not be better for Virginia and other coal producing states like Wyoming and West Virginia to invest in more clean coal generation plants?”
"It was very predictable, as we've been saying, solar and wind are variable. The grid has to have a 50 hertz, over in Europe it's 60 hertz here in America, and just going as tad below that at any point can cause massive blackouts. That's exactly what happened."
About 15 years ago the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the golden eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality.
The Sears Island floater factory was going to cost a lot of money so Maine applied to the US Transportation Department for a roughly half billion dollars.
The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which is being built by Dominion Energy off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the largest boondoggle project of all, and it is subject to all of the same concerns about offshore wind.
The offset is called "compensatory mitigation" which means the wind power facility pays the FWS or their agents to have their eagle killing offset by helping others live someplace else.
Watch Craig Rucker on the Matt Gaetz Show.
Watch Craig Rucker on OAN.
Two new studies together imply that the golden eagle wind-kill taking is at the limit or beyond.
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Dominion Energy is preparing to resume construction of one of the largest offshore wind projects in the world.