Maine’s massive floating wind folly

Wind turbines are inefficient, intermittent, expensive, carry a heavy environmental footprint and are not up to the task of powering the future.

Leave it to government to find a new way to make offshore wind even less efficient.

Read the new report from CFACT revealing the folly of plans to station floating wind turbines off the coast of Maine.

CFACT senior policy advisor David Wojick, Ph.D. reports that, “the offshore wind facilities will consist of great numbers of “floating turbines” operating at a scale and degree of reliability that hasn’t been verified to work in the real world. Such an assumption makes the entire plan not only technologically speculative, but also enormously risky.”

In addition to these turbines being a poor energy solution that will be vulnerable to hurricanes and other storms, they pose a serious potential threat to marine mammals, including the highly endangered right whale. Regulatory environmental impact studies have been dangerously incomplete.

Wojick’s report concludes that, “the Environmental Assessment does include the leasehold sonar surveys prior to construction. Recent analysis has determined that such surveys are responsible for numerous whale deaths along the Atlantic Coast. It is therefore imperative the BOEM and NOAA carefully assess the potentially lethal impact of leasehold surveys on whales before any surveys are approved.”

The Biden/Harris Orwellian-named “Inflation Reduction Act” will spend $891 billion, including billions for these kinds of energy boondoggles. Climate ideologues and profiteers will do anything to get their hands on these funds, including floating vulnerable, inefficient wind turbines smack in the middle of the Right Whale’s migration path.

A return to energy sanity is long overdue.

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