In each of the last three General Assembly session, Governor Martin O’Malley has pushed legislation that would open the door to the development of a wind farm including anywhere from 40 to 100 turbines off the coast of Ocean City, and in each year, state lawmakers have balked at the proposal for a variety of reasons. However, proceeding on a parallel course has been an effort to develop a network of underwater transmission lines just off the coast in preparation for a future connection from offshore wind turbines to the mainland.
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So just when do the taxpayers, who are educated to the FACT that wind power is NOT cost effective technology yet, get to VOTE FOR OR AGAINST this project?
ReplyDeleteIr are the Democrats just going try to to shove it our collective behinds?
Ask any competent electrical engineer that can balance a check book if wind power is the way to go...... It doesn't produce enough electrify to be worthwhile and berings in the windmill corrode so fast from the salt water that it makes the wind mill operate at 60 % capacity.
ReplyDelete1. Citizens don't get to vote on every single bill that comes up.
ReplyDelete2. It's not correct that about the efficiency or the corrosion. Another example of making up a "fact". One way to tell is that "berings" is spelled wrong.
Electricity and salt water have never been a good mix. This is NOT a thing to pay for.
ReplyDeleteWind turbine operators would dance in the streets @ 60% capacity.
ReplyDeleteThe norm is more like 35%.
In Britain, the power companies now want backup power plants on standby.
Google "Energy giants want billions for back-up to windfarms."