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  • Re: Off-Shore Wind taking a long pause

    From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Sun Jan 21 14:38:19 2024
    On 1/21/24 10:21 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/a-clean-energy-bet-goes-bad-for-power-companies/ar-BB1gWnPL

    Is climate change going to wait for them to get their shit
    together?

    Face reality.....the Biden plan is failing. And it's failing hard
    with a big fat loss of capital that will make it even harder to mount
    a second effort at restructuring our energy base. Not to mention that
    voters have put it on the bottom of their list of concerns.

    It's not hard to see what is happening. If you really believe
    climate change is the threat they've been claiming it is to justify
    these massive changes in such a short time frame, you have to be
    pissed their plans are failing. Or maybe you really aren't all that concerned.

    I'd rather read something credible than hear a climate denier crow over
    every setback. Something like this:

    https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/10/1086354/whats-next-for-offshore-wind/

    I learned that the reason there was a shortage of construction ships is
    "a single century-old law, which mandates that only ships built and
    operated by the US can operate from US ports." Fortunately such ships
    are under construction.

    Yes, it recaps the recent setbacks, too.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Jan 22 15:02:53 2024
    On 1/22/24 12:08 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 12:38:24 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 1/21/24 10:21 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/a-clean-energy-bet-goes-bad-for-power-companies/ar-BB1gWnPL

    Is climate change going to wait for them to get their shit
    together?

    Face reality.....the Biden plan is failing. And it's failing hard
    with a big fat loss of capital that will make it even harder to mount
    a second effort at restructuring our energy base. Not to mention that
    voters have put it on the bottom of their list of concerns.

    It's not hard to see what is happening. If you really believe
    climate change is the threat they've been claiming it is to justify
    these massive changes in such a short time frame, you have to be
    pissed their plans are failing. Or maybe you really aren't all that
    concerned.
    I'd rather read something credible than hear a climate denier crow over
    every setback. Something like this:

    https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/10/1086354/whats-next-for-offshore-wind/

    I learned that the reason there was a shortage of construction ships is
    "a single century-old law, which mandates that only ships built and
    operated by the US can operate from US ports." Fortunately such ships
    are under construction.

    Yes, it recaps the recent setbacks, too.

    You think Joe couldn't have fixed that with a stroke of a pen and emergency declaration?

    No, I don't think that. Trump wasn't able to after the Puerto Rico
    hurricane.

    Or by simply making a pit stop in Canada. the law is skirted.
    You know this is one "small" factor and global availability is the real issue.

    Good thing construction ships are being built. A view from 2021:

    https://www.theverge.com/22296979/us-offshore-ships-wind-boom-installation-vessels

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