Biden proposes new windmill farms
along huge swaths of U.S. coastline
Washington Times,
by
Dave Boyer
&
Seth Mclaughlin
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/29/2021 2:01:16 PM
President Biden announced a plan on Monday to spur development of large offshore wind farms to generate electricity for up to 10 million homes and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the plan envisions large windmills along every coast of the continental U.S. She said it will eventually produce “tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs.” “The president recognizes that a thriving offshore wind industry will drive new jobs and economic opportunity up and down the Atlantic Coast, in the Gulf of Mexico and in Pacific waters,” she said. Ms. Psaki also said the initiative will eliminate 78 million
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jimincalif 3/29/2021 2:03:50 PM (No. 738501)
Uh huh. Did he get permission from the Kennedys? https://www.reuters.com/article/environment-utilities-operations-capewin/cape-cod-commission-denies-cape-wind-application-idUSN1930289620071019
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 3/29/2021 2:05:34 PM (No. 738503)
Great idea, Joe!
How installing the first ones offshore Nantucket, right where Obama can see them from his new beach estate?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ribicon 3/29/2021 2:16:23 PM (No. 738506)
#2, shadow prez Barry also has an oceanfront estate on Oahu, another prime spot to locate these monstrosities. It certainly is strange how the same folks who push Our Rising Seas also are buying up incredibly expensive beachfront properties, using money that seems to grow on trees.
38 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
justavoter 3/29/2021 2:19:58 PM (No. 738509)
I constantly fight community planning boards over aesthetics in real estate development. There is nothing more distasteful and aesthetically unpleasant than a wind farm. Hypocrites are them all!
39 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
pensom2 3/29/2021 2:20:43 PM (No. 738511)
Well #3, the money doesn't grow on trees, though it seems to. It comes from kickbacks from China, Ukraine, Iran, and many other beneficiaries of the Obama years--which are resurging, thanks to election fraud. (I know you are aware of this.)
26 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesse Jenkem 3/29/2021 2:21:51 PM (No. 738514)
Let me guess, huge contracts will go to Democrat supporters and donors.
38 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/29/2021 2:25:22 PM (No. 738521)
Trash the real estate values in sight of the wind farms, buy cheap, later decide they're no good. And the grandkids get some great property.
21 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 3/29/2021 2:26:30 PM (No. 738522)
Windmill farms as far as the eye can see. The eyes, however, cannot belong to rich and well-connected swells. They only want uninterrupted views of the ocean. On the west coast there will be no windmills. The coast from San Diego to Seattle has a zero population of poor people. Put the windmills over the horizon and out of sight? Nope, can't do that either.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
vrb8m 3/29/2021 2:27:50 PM (No. 738527)
What a tool.
17 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
jimincalif 3/29/2021 2:28:23 PM (No. 738530)
They will never be built and no "union jobs" will come of this. But Democrat law firms will make millions litigating both for and against them. And most of the legal fees will come from tax dollars, either federal, state or local, or grants to enviro groups who will fight them. Cha-ching!
24 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 3/29/2021 2:29:28 PM (No. 738532)
Yes let's first start near the liberal towns along the coast. Let's see just how green they really are. Wind failed Texas during the storms last month.
28 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/29/2021 2:29:40 PM (No. 738533)
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware sounds like a good place for the first offshore windmill farm. I'm sure the Biden's will appreciate the view from their beach house. They will also enjoy the dead birds washing up on shore from being killed by the turbines. Make sure that Dover and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, maybe Scranton, PA are the recipients of the unreliable windmill energy. Make sure that Kamala's hometown and Biden's Sec. of Energy (Granholm) are also stuck living with windmill energy. If they want it, they must be among the first ones to live with it to demonstrate how wonderful and dependent it is.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 3/29/2021 2:37:53 PM (No. 738537)
Sure they worked so well In Texas last month the whole state shut down so everyone froze.
27 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/29/2021 2:38:21 PM (No. 738538)
The windmills may generate tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs but they will take away hundreds of thousands of good-paying union jobs from all of the beach hotels that will close down when people stop going to the ugly beaches. Good Old Joe, a half step forward and ten steps backward.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
marbles 3/29/2021 2:38:36 PM (No. 738539)
Attach " farm" to it and sounds, benign and friendly and a really good thing. They can be blown down by strong winds and the broken turbine blades are an environmental nightmare . More P.C. garbage brought to you by people in hot pursuit of money and power.
20 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Mofongo 3/29/2021 2:40:50 PM (No. 738542)
I hear Chilmark in Martha’s Vinyard will be the first.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/29/2021 2:45:14 PM (No. 738547)
Windmills did so well in Texas, after all.The democrats, not satisfied with killing millions of birds, bats and hawks, now want to wipe out the wildlife along the coast. So much for conservation.
20 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/29/2021 2:54:39 PM (No. 738557)
I have a much better idea...Surround Washington DC with 1000 of them...the Flatulence alone will power the whole East Coast!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 3/29/2021 2:55:21 PM (No. 738558)
Hope Nuntucket and Cape Cod are included.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Nimby 3/29/2021 2:58:17 PM (No. 738562)
Why? Line up all the Democrats along the coastline. They have enough hot air
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Calico Al 3/29/2021 3:00:49 PM (No. 738566)
That sure would get rid of a lot of pelicans and seagulls. I wonderer if the bird lover society will say anything about the killing of birds. So far the bird watcher have been very quiet about the wind mills or the solar panels killing birds.
18 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
BillW. 3/29/2021 3:06:39 PM (No. 738570)
Plant one behind Traitor Obama's beachside abode on the Vineyard.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Muguy 3/29/2021 3:20:17 PM (No. 738584)
The fact is that these cost more to produce than they produce in energy and are not cost efficient unless massively subsidized with tax dollars seems to not matter for some reason.
The fins cannot be recycled and take up a lot of space in landfills
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/29/2021 3:29:52 PM (No. 738588)
Windmills destroyed the eastern view of the Coachella Valley forever. I remember the valley before the first one went up.
20 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
lftrn97 3/29/2021 3:57:48 PM (No. 738610)
Solyndra V2.0
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/29/2021 4:07:24 PM (No. 738619)
The offshore wind turbine farms will make great (expensive) offshore reefs once the first Category 5 hurricane or big nor'easter comes through and destroys a bunch of them. Also, where will people's power come from when these type of high wind event type storms come through and the turbines must be shut down (before they are destroyed)?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
SALady 3/29/2021 4:10:30 PM (No. 738622)
Those windmills cost over $2,000,000 each. In this best of conditions (which clearly being bombarded by salty seawater 24/7/365 it will not be), the most they last for is about 20 years (except for all the ones destroyed by lightning strikes much sooner).
A single windmill will not come close to making $2,000,000 in electricity in it's life, so they never pay for themselves. And then you are left with a giant mostly unrecyclable pile of waste.
But, hey, it makes a bunch of braindead lie-berals "feel" good, so that is apparently all that matters!!!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/29/2021 4:13:39 PM (No. 738624)
Wait until they try to place those Biden windmills on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of “woke” Massachusetts where the rich and famous spend their summers. As they won’t get any sort of positive reception that’s for sure, just ask the Kennedy’s and John Kerry.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
dst4life 3/29/2021 4:20:23 PM (No. 738630)
For starters, Joe Schmuck Biden, set an example by having those windmills surround as well as populate the private property of every Demonrat in Congress. See how they like that.
14 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 3/29/2021 4:38:44 PM (No. 738645)
NO!
Keep these ugly bird killers away.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
mizzmac 3/29/2021 4:42:40 PM (No. 738653)
"Let's go to the beach!" Oh. Never mind.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 3/29/2021 4:45:29 PM (No. 738656)
The new Amtrak.
High cost.
Crappy service.
Union votes
Kickbacks.
...
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 3/29/2021 4:57:51 PM (No. 738675)
Far too many communities along the Coast, majority are VERY high-income communities (i.e. Carmel, Malibu, Laguna Beach) will be extremely against anything like this plan.
Since these would be in U.S. territorial waters, they would need to be constructed and maintained by U.S. labor and Jones Act vessels (all very high paying jobs).
Jones Act ships would need to be built in the United States, and have U.S. crews.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/29/2021 4:59:52 PM (No. 738678)
The Democ'RATS like that phrase "good paying union jobs"....but the 'Rats abandoned the Unions in favor of the Dindus, the Gimme-Gimmes, the Felons, and the Illegals.
My understanding is that most, if not all, of the parts for the Bird-Choppers -particularly the huge Blades- are made in Communist China. Any so-called 'Good paying Jobs' are going to the Chi-coms!
What this really is, is a scheme to wipe out the Bald Eagles, which live along the coasts.
My understanding is that there are very heavy penalties for causing the death of these birds, but with this Administration, any penalties will be 'waived'.
My REAL question is this..... Even more so than for Zero......"If Biden set out to do Everything in his power to weaken and destroy America.......what would he do DIFFERENTLY than what he is already doing?
I say the difference is.... NOTHING!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/29/2021 5:40:54 PM (No. 738712)
Hopefully, none of them use any plastics (an oil by product).
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
rochow 3/29/2021 5:50:25 PM (No. 738719)
Keep killing more birds you dementia moron! In Europe they are considering taking them all down because the damage they cause! Biden you were an undereducated liar and cheat, your gang running you isn't much better!
9 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/29/2021 6:55:08 PM (No. 738768)
Does anyone think ex military demolition experts wouldn't work without pay to 'help' with windfarms?
3 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/29/2021 6:58:21 PM (No. 738770)
Put 'em on Martha's Vineyard first in front of the Obamas' place. See how they work out there, then ask the rest of us coastal dwellers.
6 people like this.
No harsher environment to install these. After a few years the foundations corrode, the units are put out of commission, partially dismantles, and what remains are hazards to navigation.
4 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
or gate 3/29/2021 7:47:15 PM (No. 738806)
Go to the coast and enjoy the birds being ate up by the windmills.
How romantic.
2 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
NotaBene 3/30/2021 1:58:57 AM (No. 739000)
Please not in Malibu.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
mifla 3/30/2021 7:13:25 AM (No. 739117)
Start with Hyannis Port.
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