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Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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Post by marcosdumay »

sandworm101 wrote: post #55
ianburrell wrote: post #30

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Solar and wind are good complements. Solar works during the day and best on clear, windless days. Wind blows best during the night and on cloudy, stormy days. Solar is best in summer and wind in winter. Wind also works better in some areas that don't have solar. UK has a lot of offshore wind, but less solar. The US Northeast has a lot of wind but lags behind on solar. Wind has dropped significantly in price over the…

I theory yes, but grid storage favors solar. Solar can be placed much closer to consumption, literally on the roof of the consumer. Wind exists in large farms away from cities. They are not perfect partners. The rich/old paticularly hate wind because they do not like looking at it. (The link to golf courses is not by accident. Wind farms and golf course tend to appear together due to them both gravitating towards are…

> I theory yes, but grid storage favors solar.

With solar you get to overbuild it and charge you batteries once a day. Wind has way more peaks and bottoms, so you can sell your battery capacity several times most days.

But the GPs point is exactly that you need fewer batteries if you have both. Fewer batteries tends to be cheaper than more, and this pair is a very common case.

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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Post by rootusrootus »

behringer wrote: post #44
toomuchtodo wrote: post #25

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Well, judicial checks and balances should protect them until regime change, which is coming.

There's no regime change coming when those in power run the elections, have already cheated in the past, and know that they are now untouchable.

It is not too useful to make bold unsupported claims that the current administration has the power to subvert elections. That just lowers us to their level, and the last thing we need is for a further erosion in confidence in our democratic system. The states run elections, and no matter what Trump says to get people to keep paying attention to him, they don't jump when the president tells them to. The feds have money and nukes, but States have a lot of the actual power.

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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Post by rootusrootus »

prawn wrote: post #95
amanaplanacanal wrote: post #77

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States run the elections.

The US president just today said that Republicans should "nationalize the voting" in future elections.

It certainly gets us to keep talking about him. Which seems to be his primary skill. It does not have any basis in reality, however.

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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Post by rootusrootus »

CGMthrowaway wrote: post #51
ggm wrote: post #5

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If you wanted to defend an O&G field, wouldn't you need to consider a similar extent? per wellhead, yes. but the go to a concentrator for onshore feed don't they? or some kind of attached floating rig, which itself is a SPF. I thought fields had 100s of square km of extent too. The exclusion zone after nordstream is now pretty big, albiet "temporary" according to the web its 5 to 7 nm so 9 to 13 km so close to 100 km…

All of which are continually manned. Not so w/ offshore wind

Don't wind turbines get serviced a few times a year? I would bet that on any given day there will be people at the farms.

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Post by bmitc »

verdverm wrote: post #98
kabdib wrote: post #63

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> incompetency "corruption"

spite of one man child

The sad truth is that it's millions of people. These people just want to see the world burn due to nothing but narcissism and hate of the imaginary "other side".

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Post by bmitc »

mbivert wrote: post #89
threethirtytwo wrote: post #68

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> Less corruption there's been, in 2025, 983 000 people receiving disciplinary sanctions[0]. then: 1. either there's no corruption, and people are getting sanctioned for no reason 2. there's corruption > Less incompetency one thing they seem to do correctly in China, is to select their leaders not based on pure political skills, but on actual thinking skills: many of them come from technical backgrounds, and have bee…

> one thing they seem to do correctly in China, is to select their leaders not based on pure political skills, but on actual thinking skills: many of them come from technical backgrounds, and have been trained to think rationally.

Is that true?

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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Post by rootusrootus »

kentm wrote: post #3
ggm wrote: post #2

posted this at ars forum: (it should be clear I think it was a stupid move by the WH, but I am trying to think what might have "informed" it) Steelmanning the risks, its the link to mainland as a weakness in supply chain of power, compared to onshore sources possibly. But, the construction is in close water, well inside the exclusive economic zone. You would think passage of a craft capable of causing a power shock w…

I appreciate the sentiment behind steelmanning but Trump has had over a decade of publicaly, vocally hating windmills because some were built too close to his golf course. See https://www.npr.org/2013/07/01/196352470/thar-he-blows-trump... Its completely in-line with his personality to hold onto personal grievances for decades to the point that they become policy.

> Its completely in-line with his personality to hold onto personal grievances for decades to the point that they become policy.

I feel like much of what he does today can be directly attributed to the epic roasting he got from Obama at the correspondents' dinner. Most of us would be absolutely honored by being roasted by the sitting president, but he seemed at the time to take it very personally.

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Post by IhateAI »

einpoklum wrote: post #11

Judge : "Why were these projects put on hold?" Government lawyers : "Uh, well, we could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you." Now, I would point out how the US is making itself into a joke, but I'm afraid the joke's on us, because carbon output is not decreasing dramatically like it must, and the effects of global warming will, slowly but surely, become worse with every passing year. I live in a region where war…

Offshore windmills legitimately do interfere with some of these military radars monitoring the coastline that are probably top secret, or so I'm told by people that would know. However, I doubt that's the only reason of course.

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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Post by bmitc »

verdverm wrote: post #99
threethirtytwo wrote: post #80

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There is a relationship here. It is not a perfect one, but it is real, and pretending otherwise just avoids the tradeoff. Take California’s high speed rail. Every individual has the right to object. No one wants an eyesore in their backyard. Everyone gets a hearing. Everyone gets a lawsuit. Everyone gets a veto in practice, if not in theory. The result is predictable. I will never see a functioning high speed rail sy…

What do N Korea vs S Korea or Poland vs Belarus tell us about the forms of government and their relative outcomes?

Those are unique situations not solely born out of differences of forms of government.
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