Offshore wind turbines may generate green energy, but they use a lot more oil than proponents like to admit.
Just installing the foundation of a single offshore turbine can consume 18,857 barrels of marine fuel during construction, according to calculations published by Forbes Wednesday. Offshore wind farms often have over 100 wind turbines, meaning that building them requires almost 2 million barrels of fuel just to power the ships involved in construction.
“You can’t even construct or operate offshore wind turbines without oil,” Chris Warren, a spokesman for the free-market Institute for Energy Research, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “For decades, we have been told that wind, solar, and other so-called ‘green’ sources are the future, and yet these sources remain expensive, intermittent, and unreliable despite government mandates and subsidies. Offshore wind in particular remains one of the most expensive sources of electricity that exists.”
The Long Island-New York City Offshore Wind Collaborative will cost $1 billion dollar to build and generate roughly 200 megawatts of electricity, enough to provide power to between 40,000 and 64,000 homes — depending on how much the wind blows over the course of the year.
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Wind power doesn't even come close to breaking even with its costs and is so unstable a source of power that backup traditional generation plants must be kept at constant standby.
ReplyDeleteSame thing with solar power. The chemicals and components required to build the photovoltaic cells cost much more than the value of any electricity that can ever be harvested. Without subsidies from taxpayers solar is a non-starter.
ReplyDeleteWonder why your electric bill keeps going up? Because your paying for solar and wind
ReplyDeleteWind, solar, and biomass costs are 4 to 20 times conventional sources. Renewables also wreak havoc with the local environment by destroying habitat and increasing temperatures. Supporting these forms of energy increases locals electricity rates while placing massive dollars in the developers pockets.
ReplyDeleteWonder why your electric goes up because those meters are not accurate. They are probably programmed to show more electric was used than what is actually used.
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