OCEAN CITY — While the effort to develop an offshore wind energy farm just 30 miles off the coast of Ocean City continues to plod steadily forward, a new study released last week suggests offshore wind farms of a considerably greater size than the one proposed off Maryland’s coast could significantly lessen the power and mitigate the damage caused by hurricanes and other major coastal storms.
Late last year, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the lease of Maryland’s designated Wind Energy Area, an 80,000 acre tract of open ocean roughly 10 to 30 miles off the coast of Ocean City would be put out for bid early in 2014. Already, one major player, Virginia-based Dominion Energy, announced its intention to bid on Maryland’s wind energy area and others are expected to soon follow suit.
Just last week, a study released by Stanford University, in partnership with the University of Delaware, suggests offshore wind farms with thousands of turbines, could siphon away the energy from hurricanes and coastal storms and significantly reduce peak wind speeds and lower storm surges. Noted Stanford civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson conducted the research with the help of University of Delaware professors Cristina Archer and Willett Kempton.
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Only if a T-Bone hit us would they lessen the impact,and we all know how rare a T-Bone hurricane is (that's a hurricane that comes to shore in a direct path vs at an angle).
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of horse hockey! A real hurricane will tear down those windmills blade by blade and throw them at us like patriot missiles!
ReplyDeleteJust another made up story to sell an offshore wind farm! You know, like the three little pigs story!
Salt water and electricity don't mix, and low airspeed wings can't hold up in over speeding winds because they have so much twist in them they can't feather the whole blade.
NEXT!
Do these people really think we are stupid enough to believe this crap?
ReplyDeleteWhat a load
ReplyDelete"It’s important to note the Stanford study simulated a wind energy farm with thousands of turbines lined up for several miles along the coast."
ReplyDeleteKeywords: simulated thousands
Anytime you see "modeling" run for the hills. NOTHING about wind turbines has followed the models, e.g., output, efficiency. I'm guessing that turbine mortality will be the next multi-million research hole.
This study is a tad hard to believe. The last couple of hurricanes that came inland had storm signatures that covered the whole coast and were as big as 1/3of the country. Some large (from a puny human perspective) wind turbines are going to slow that down? Give me a break. Any study can be skewed to say anything. It depends mostly on the objectives of the ones doing the study. Studies are lot like statistics. You can spout off any number (thousands and thousands for instance) and who is really going to do the necessary research to verify it?
ReplyDeleteAnd I guess solar panels will alleviate global warming.
ReplyDeleteYeah, 423, look at all that shade they make! Of course, we'll have to cut down a forest to make room for them...
ReplyDeleteOOOOOh, I went To Obama's web site and he said they STOP SNOW TOO....
ReplyDeletePut them up and down the east coast.
ReplyDeleteI poke thousands of toothpicks in my yard and last year I had ZERO tornado damage! So, I'm here to tell ya, it works!
ReplyDeleteMayor rick and the silly council are loving this! more facts please so we can justify jamming this down the taxpayers throat. In a high wind event, the wind mills have to be turned off because high wind loads will burn up the motors, and the storage units do not have the storage for such high volumes at a time. Total propaganda.
ReplyDeleteHey, Government Geniuses! We're not stupid! Don't you get that? You will have to wait a few generations of "Common Core" to pull this wool over our eyes!
ReplyDeleteDid you ever notice that the wind turbine at Ches College used to not turn in moderate wind, now it moves even on days when the wind is not moving at all? And also, when did you ever read about the wonderful revenues coming from the wind turbine, or the solar fields in easton, or at purdues? Thanks Gov!
ReplyDeleteThat's like saying global warming is man made.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteHey, Government Geniuses! We're not stupid! Don't you get that? You will have to wait a few generations of "Common Core" to pull this wool over our eyes!
March 8, 2014 at 8:42 PM
Umm... You all voted for Obama... Twice!
"Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteDo these people really think we are stupid enough to believe this crap?
March 7, 2014 at 12:47 PM"
No we know better than to believe this BS. The problem are the democrats who history has proven are intellectually inferiour. Their legacy is littered with failed policy after failed policy. Every city which has been under democrat control for generations is a cess pool of crime and poverty. There are no if's and's or but's about it, demoocrats are solely to blame for every ill this country is experiencing. To deny this is a bold faced lie.
hope they build them sturdier than they built the Inlet Pier.
ReplyDeleteif you check the Green Energy allocations and the history of such endeavors..you'll find a link to a Chicago Bank that has Hillary's College roommate Jan Piercy from Wellesley running the show.
Al Gore has had plenty of transactions go through that Bank. If I remember right it's called SHOREBANK-- not sure if they are the same as the one here