Wind Farms Aren't Quite So Hideous Out at Sea

They're still hideous but this way we can't see them.

GE and Deepwater Wind, a developer of offshore turbines, have partnered to build five massive wind turbines and install them in the Atlantic Ocean. They make up the first offshore wind farm in North America, called the Block Island Wind Farm. The turbines started delivering power to the New England grid on May 5, and effectively helped shut down a diesel plant that previously provided electricity to Block Island.

The Block Island Wind Farm is rated at 30 megawatts, which is the amount required to power every home on Block Island, Eric Crucerey, the farm's project manager, tells Business Insider. It will emit about 40,000 fewer tons of greenhouse gases per year than fossil fuels would to generate the same amount of energy. That's the equivalent of taking 150,000 cars off the road.

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These environmental cock rings have little potential for expansion insofar as the process is slow and how much of the planet will you cover with them.  Part 2:  how many birds are you willing to whack with them.  We probably won't know or hear of how many they croaked for the ocean installations.

Note:  the Rockhouse is experienced but not with cock rings since some things are readily identifiable as Seriously Bad Ideas.


The Rockhouse has no disagreement with environmentalists that oil and coal are filthy, short-sighted solutions but we see limited ability in wind farms to supplant the energy demands which are currently supplied by such other means.

There is some Rockhouse optimism regarding solar since there's abundant research into improving the efficiency of the cells with the consequent result the solar farms will not need to be so large.  That also invokes the Law of Evolutionary Potential, however, since an installed solar farm will be more expensive to convert than to build one from scratch so there will be corporate resistance to doing it and that applies anywhere in the world since corporate is Establishment and all sorts of lovely words of that nature.

Coal burning creates nothing but filth and you know it already.  They have become much better at burning petroleum products in cars but there's still no chance anyone would breathe the exhaust fumes unless you deliberately intend to leave the Earth.


The Rockhouse tends to go nuclear in this situation although we're aware of environmental hazards from that approach as well.  There's been a great deal of screaming in recent days regarding the potential leaks of radiation from nuclear waste stored at any number of reactor sites and this is one of those lovely times when we get to remind there's an excellent nuclear waste storage facility in Yucca Mountain, NV, and, you guessed, Congress shut it down.

Open the damn thing.  Do this right if you're going to do it at all.  The current half-ass approach is ludicrous and incredibly dangerous.  Go ahead and laugh at "Turning Japanese" but you saw their stellar job with nuclear management.  As above, do it right or don't do it.  Judging it on the basis of existing management in America makes no sense since there is no nuclear waste management in America when they're dumping it wherever they feel like it or it costs the least.

It would cost ridiculously less to ship that spent fuel to Yucca Mountain but nooooo ... that makes too much sense.


I'm aware there's another nuclear storage facility in Arizona but it's obviously not doing much when so much of that nuclear waste shit is dumped around every nuclear reactor site.

Do it right or turn the bitch off to be done with it.  Half ass will only get people killed; it always does.