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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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spite of one man child

The child may be mad but he is happy to take bribes from the oil industry so they are as guilty as he is. And the same goes for most right wing politicians in Europe.

Humanity needs to wake up to the fact that our supposed "leaders" only lead us toward servitude. Our economic and political systems are designed to keep the vast majority of people in either literal or figurative chains so 25 people can get rich.

The entire system needs to be smashed to bits for the good of the many. Because after all, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few, or the one. But not in current human societies -- currently we value cruelty and malice.

We're all guilty of this.

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

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post #324

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looking at wind as objectively as I can, it doesn't look like a good investment, and the environmental problems caused by putting these in the ocean are tragic to wildlife

Then apparently you have a very limited ability to be objective.

feel free to present the arguments rather than just name-calling

the post i replied to didn't present any substance either

there's serious ecological problems with these turbines, the materials cant be recycled, and their uninstallation is incredibly costly

they just don't seem like a great source of energy

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

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Is that a freedom? You're defining everything as though the US were the optimal model of society. Couldn't I just as easily define the freedom to be safe from guns?

I contacted RINSE and got no answer as well, thanks for the reply even if HN mgmt doesn't like it. Join me in downvoting their post.

You replied to the wrong comment of mine! More effective if you hit the right one.

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

#364

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The child may be mad but he is happy to take bribes from the oil industry so they are as guilty as he is. And the same goes for most right wing politicians in Europe.

Humanity needs to wake up to the fact that our supposed "leaders" only lead us toward servitude. Our economic and political systems are designed to keep the vast majority of people in either literal or figurative chains so 25 people can get rich. The entire system needs to be smashed to bits for the good of the many. Because after all, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few, or the one. But not in current…

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

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It's also interesting how the constitution is only a holy grail when it comes to stuff the particular individual you ask about cares for. So you end up talking with individuals where "the 2nd amendment says I can have guns, it's in the constitution" and "my favorite president should go for a third term, the 22nd amendment is just a technicality".

The 2nd amendment was only carved out to cater for school shootings and manly displays of virility on Facebook. I suppose maggats thought they would need it to rise up against a tyrannical government that protects minorities, but now that they have a fascist government, they tell us that the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments aren't actually serious. You have to be nice to the members of the gestapo, if they get offended, t…

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

#366

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I contacted RINSE and got no answer as well, thanks for the reply even if HN mgmt doesn't like it. Join me in downvoting their post.

You replied to the wrong comment of mine! More effective if you hit the right one.

One can’t reply to a dead comment, so I came here as the only option.

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

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>success of a long-term project can be ensured through the procedures described in the source article: you set up a durable judicial system, and invest them with the power to require that the country uphold its end of the bargain, no matter how much its current political leaders might want to change course. That's an abuse of the judicial system. Politicians are elected exactly because the voters perceive a need to c…

That is not an abuse of the judicial system. That is actual rule of law rather the rule of the whim. Elected politicians can change laws and rules going forward, but there should be obstacles at changing past laws.

Sure but they will still need to pay up the agreed contract price.

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

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5 current scotus judges are part of the federalist society. Do you believe only "leftist" judges are activist judges?

Federalist society is supporting textualist interpretation of the law. If you want the law to be different, then change the constitution. Having overly expansive interpetations of the constitution to make the law what you want is being an activist. Textualism is just going by what the law says.

Presidential immunity ruling is textualism? Get off your horse.

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

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Imagine a world where Biden blocked construction of oil rigs and you can see how crazy this all looks to the rest of the world. Oh wait he did. It's tit for tat politics and nothing else. The downside is we have to play along until the courts fix it.

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

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post #324

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Then apparently you have a very limited ability to be objective.

feel free to present the arguments rather than just name-calling the post i replied to didn't present any substance either there's serious ecological problems with these turbines, the materials cant be recycled, and their uninstallation is incredibly costly they just don't seem like a great source of energy

GP was mocking you (not calling you names) because your comment was just a classic uninformed (some would even say stupid) opinion, and was presented as you "looking at wind as objectively as I can"

Maybe if you look at the comment context a little more objectively, you'll agree there's some thing quite funny about it.

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Putting that aside though, lets look at your claim:

> there's serious ecological problems with these turbines, the materials cant be recycled, and their uninstallation is incredibly costly

First of all, it's only one subset of the materials (the fiberglass in the blades) that are difficult to recycle, the vast majority of the actual material is highly recyclable steel. The blades in a modern offshore turbine usually weigh around 80 metric tons at the high end.

Your typical modern offshore wind turbine has rated output of around 15 MW of power, with a yearly capacity factor of around 40% at the lower end, so an average output of around 6 MW. Multiply that by the more or less standard 25 year rated lifetime of the turbine, that means you can expect the turbine to produce around 1300 GWh of electrical energy over the course of its life.

How much energy is 1300 GWh? Well, to get 1300 GWh of electricity out of a high-efficiency (i.e. 50% efficiency) natural gas power plant, you'd need to burn around 175,000 tons of natural gas, (dumping all of the waste product into the gigantic open sewer we call our atmosphere).

That's about 3 orders of magnitude more mass in natural gas that will need to be burned (and don't forget, natural gas is non-recyclable!!1!!1) than the blades weigh.

This means that you went and tossed a thousand wind turbine blades in an incinerator for every turbine you actually install, you'll still break even on the amount of non-recyclable material

So forgive me for not taking your complaints very seriously.

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