China Joe Plans To Build Lots Of Massive Offshore Wind Farms

I wonder if Joe is ready for all the lawsuits from people who do not want their ocean views and fishing areas disrupted. From enviros who aren’t happy about seabirds being sliced and diced and marine mammals having their travel routes messed up from the vibration sounds. And those who will sue over the transmission lines. And so much more. Heck, maybe climate envoy John Kerry will join a lawsuit, as he did with the Cape Wind Project (which, by the way, after all the hoopla, ended up providing way less energy than they said it would)

Joe Biden plans to build huge offshore wind farms to tackle the climate crisis

President Joe Biden’s administration has detailed a plan to build huge offshore wind farms in the United States as part of his plans to tackle climate change.

The project, which was unveiled on Monday, aims to create 30 extra gigawatts of offshore wind generation to US coastlines by 2030, while creating tens of thousands of jobs.

The White House said meeting that target would cost $12 billion a year in capital investment on both US coastlines and would employ 44,000 workers, as well as 33,000 additional jobs in communities supported by offshore wind generation.

If this was so important then the private sector would be jumping to do it. Why is it necessary to spend federal taxpayer money on this, and then see the taxpayers charged to use this expensive energy? And what happens when a tropical storm or Nor’easter takes them out?

The wind farms would supply power to 10 million homes and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 78 million metric tons, the White House said.

As one part of the efforts, Interior Department announced a new “priority wind energy area” in the New York Bight, a shallow area between Long Island and the New Jersey coastline, where the agency hopes to construct a wind farm by 2030.

We could have several 5th or 6th generation nuclear power plants up before that, providing way more energy, and much more reliable. Same with natural gas plants.

“The announcements we’re making today I hope will just jump-start everyone’s understanding of the potential for offshore wind energy, and move this industry forward in a way that’s going to allow us to really focus on the supply chain issue as well, because we’re not just talking about erecting wind turbines in the oceans, we’re talking about massive turbines that are actually manufactured in the United States,” national climate adviser Gina McCarthy said Monday, in comments reported by Politico.

Interestingly, neither the White House nor the private homes of Gina McCarthy, John Kerry or Joe Biden are powered by wind or solar. Go figure.