Offshore wind may not reduce CO₂ emissions
Updated: 2023-07-31 19:13:12
There is a common assumption that offshore wind electricity generation greatly reduces CO2 emissions. In fact this is the primary justification for the horrendous cost and adverse impact of these offshore megaprojects. As with many green assumptions, this may well be false. First, given the way power generation actually works the reduction in fossil fuel emissions may not be all that great. In fact offshore wind could actually increase fossil fuel emissions. This is explained below. Let’s take New Jersey . . .
Sir, – My name is Richard Whatley, I am a self-employed joiner born and bred in Edinbane, Skye. I would like to express my objection to the Ben Aketil windfarm repowering for the following reasons: Negative visual impact: Crazy to have 200-metre turbines anywhere in Scotland or the Highlands, let alone Skye, one of the most beautifuI islands in the world that Is our home. Why not repower them to the same size as is already there? Please don’t allow . . .
The foothills of iconic Ben Wyvis are once again being targeted by a renewable energy company as a site for a wind farm. E Power Ltd have just put in a scoping application to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit for a wind farm comprising up to 22 turbines with a maximum blade tip height of up to 200m which will be visible from the Ness Bridge in Inverness on a clear day. The area on the Heights of Docharty . . .
In a photo from the 2023 pilgrimage to what was Minidoka Internment Center in Idaho, former incarcerees stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, hands on their hearts. They are all senior citizens now. One of them wears a red, white, and blue shirt emblazoned with the United States flag. There was never any doubt as to their loyalty to our nation, and yet the U.S. government did doubt, and in 1942 sent almost 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry to Minidoka. . . .
The winds of change are blowing. Conservative activists, environmentalists and New Jersey fishermen protested the construction of wind turbines off the East Coast on Monday, highlighting increasing whale deaths in the region that they say are tied to offshore renewable energy. The coalition, organized by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, sent out three boats to South Fork Wind Farm, roughly 20 miles from both Martha’s Vineyard and Montauk, NY, holding signs that read “STOP WINDMILLS SAVE WHALES” while shouting . . .
Albion – About 30 farmers from Albion, China and Palermo drove their tractors or trucks Wednesday to the Albion Town Office to protest a proposed transmission corridor that they say could decimate their livelihoods. The Aroostook Renewable Gateway Project, proposed by LS Power Grid Maine, a subsidiary of Missouri-based LS Power, would extend transmission lines across some 150 miles to tap into northern Maine’s robust wind power resources. Aroostook County lacks a connection to New England’s electric grid, but the project . . .
The now infamous and catastrophic fire at the Eight Point Wind facility in West Union NY littered fiberglass debris over a wide area as it burned. A large portion of the land that was contaminated with shreds of fiberglass debris are hayfields owned by the Mullen family farm. The fiberglass rendered the first “cutting” of hay this season contaminated and unusable. Below is a picture of the tons of otherwise pristine hay, now piled up at the site of the . . .
Despite $4.1 trillion spent on wind and solar, they aren’t even keeping pace with the growth in hydrocarbons. We are inundated with claims about the “energy transition.” In February, E&E News, reporting on the State of the Union speech said, “President Joe Biden laid out his vision for the energy transition Tuesday night.” In March, a reporter for Politico declared “The U.S. energy transition is well underway.” Also in March, during a speech at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, Energy . . .
A series of areas across the Norfolk countryside which could be dug up for new drainage schemes have been revealed. The developer behind one of the UK’s largest wind farm projects is planning a series of works to help address any potential flood risk from the plan. All the works will be along the cable route of Danish energy company Ørsted’s Hornsea Three project. The cables will be laid in a 35-mile-long trench from Weybourne to Swardeston, south of Norwich, . . .
A truck that rolled over while carrying a wind turbine has highlighted the difficulties of transporting machinery to renewable energy zones across Australia. The 60-tonne truck was carrying a $300,000, 68-metre-long wind turbine blade along Highland Lakes Road at Apsley, in Tasmania, in 2019. The massive vehicle then rolled down an embankment with photographs capturing the shocking aftermath and showing the vehicle lying on its side. Cattle Hill, the company building the wind farm, had already improved some parts of . . .
Fin mai, la cour d’appel administrative de Bordeaux a conforté le refus de la préfecture des Deux-Sèvres de l’implantation d’éoliennes aux alentours de Nanteuil. Le promoteur a jusqu’à fin juillet pour se pourvoir en cassation. L’association Environnement, cadre de vie, Nanteuil et alentours créée en 2020, mène un combat aux côtés des riverains « qui ne veulent pas d’éoliennes à Nanteuil pour préserver paysages et cadre de vie ». Rencontre avec son président, Sébastien Goudenne, Où en est le projet des quatre . . .