Oopsie…

Posted on by January 4, 2024

Looks like another east coast wind farm is biting the dust…

BP and Equinor have decided to cancel their power contract for a major offshore wind project in New York, citing “changed economic circumstances on an industry-wide scale.”

“Equinor and bp today announced an agreement with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to terminate the Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Certificate (OREC) Agreement for the Empire Wind 2 project, an offshore wind project in the US with potential generative capacity of 1,260 MW,” Equinor said in a statement. 

Full article, HERE.

I know we’ve beaten this horse again and again, but they never really pay for themselves, and the ‘investors’ get their federal energy subsidies from the government for the term of the lease/ownership, which is why they are ‘sold’ every time the .gov money grants run out.

Also, most of them need at least 9mph of wind to ‘generate’ any electricity, and top out at 35mph for generation. Anything above 55mph ‘should’ cause them to auto feather to stop damage to the blades/gensets/etc.

I know that travelling 287 N, everytime I go up toward Amarillo, I see more and more of the wind turbines with blades feathered even when the wind is blowing. Overdue maintenance? I have no idea.

Also, they DO use up to 700 gallons of oil to lubricate/cool the turbine heads, which must be replaced every 9-16 months, and the blades are not recyclable… They have to go to special landfills or are burned because they are fiberglass and composite that is NOT biodegradable.

And as a ‘bonus’, they kill birds and screw up radar returns for low flying aircraft, among other things…

Grrr…

Comments

Oopsie… — 15 Comments

  1. 1260 MW of unreliable power vs about 1100 MW of steady, reliable power from an AP1000 nuclear power plant. Oh yeah we can’t have that either. Sorry, but I’m out of f**s to give if New Yorkers freeze in the dark.

  2. From many many years of wind farms in California on I580 in the Altamont Pass shows many wind units not working. They also cause killing of mass amounts of birds. Overall there are many better ways of producing power.

  3. I should have gone into the windmill business, Old NFO. Join the New World Order, they advised. I never listen.

  4. Hey Old NFO;

    Yeap, after the connected investors bailed, leaving the taxpayers holding the bag for another “Green Energy” Boondoggle *Cough Hack* Solundra*. Excuse me, I got climate change stuck in my throat.

  5. I drove through PA last month and saw a small farm of 10.
    One was running. Most weren’t even facing the wind.

  6. Whenever I go down I-35 I see a couple of large wind farms usually turning. Not much further south is the Wolf Creek nuke which delivers more reliable power with less space.

  7. And coastal and ocean wind farms have been directly linked to fish kills and marine mammal deaths and strandings. But it’s okay because they’re ‘green’…

  10. “climate change” and the schemes associated with it like wind farms are nothing but the biggest grifters scheme ever perpetrated. Such hints exist for only one reason. To milk the taxpayer and create cash flow for con men and çorrupt politicians… but I repeat myself.

  12. Post-scarcity is another related bit of verifiably nonsense theory.

    There is one demand present in all populations that no machine can satisfy by efficient production of material items.

    That is that some humans live only to hurt other humans, and cannot be satisfied by any alternative to causing pain.

    So 1960s made cheaper food available. This decreased food stress, and created the prospect that the commies would no longer be able to obtain the backing to seize power and create a blood bath.

    Environmentalism was thus invented to justify ruining the efficiency of equipment, and by inches slowly sabotaging modern civilization in hopes of again causing insecurity and food stress.