Offshore Wind Mills Kill Whales and Blind Radar Defense Systems
But at least it generates electricity at six times the cost! So that's gotta be a net positive, right?
Imagine a government plan designed to achieve these wonderful goals:
1. Make electricity SIX TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE.
2. Destroy America's security by removing our radar and missile systems' ability to see over the horizon to detect incoming threats.
3. Deprive people of healthy seafood or at least make it three times as expensive.
4. Take American tax dollars and give them to Scandinavian countries' pension funds for the long-term benefit of Scandinavian companies and workers.
5. Oh, and kill lots of whales by deafening / blinding them while building the magical machines which deliver these wonderful benefits.
In a better - not even perfect - nation, this insanity would not occur. In that hypothetical nation, if someone raised such a bad idea, rational voices in government would tick off all the negative consequences to, say, destroying marine life to build pointlessly expensive electricity generation and the whole thing would stop. Sadly, we do not live in such a nation. Thank Heavens for driven citizens such as Meghan Lapp, who has dedicated thousands of hours to digging deep into this mess - all on her own time - to tell the rest of us how stupidly damaging the fallout from ridiculous political convictions can be. I will not steal her thunder; have a listen to this conversation.
There are myriad lessons to be gleaned from this madness. One is that NOAA and any other agency tasked with delivering analysis to the government must be a purely scientific enterprise, with its staff insulated from budgetary or other concerns. We all watched what happened when "science" became divorced from reality and became one more political plaything. Here is another example of that abuse of the objective scientific process in pursuit of ridiculously damaging political aims.
For those who wish to dig deeper, Meghan provided some helpful links:
Save Right Whales (www.saverightwhales.org)
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (www.rodafisheries.org)
An Examination Into Offshore Wind Industrialization https://www.youtube.com/live/j9MY7G8pi5M?si=G0_1XsBidT03NGw0
Cape Wind Info | Cape May County, NJ (www.capemaycountynj.gov)
Offshore Wind Mills Kill Whales and Blind Radar Defense Systems (YouTube)
Offshore Wind Mills Kill Whales and Blind Radar Defense Systems (Spotify)
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And now these wind projects have gone broke and Brandon will have TAXPAYERS bail them out!
Amen. Not only slashing the size, but housing the Departments that remain to the State most heavily effected. Agriculture to Iowa, Energy to Texas, etc. Going back to appointment rather than direct election of Senators would help, too.
The Framers had a vision for the structure of government. This isn’t to say that the amendments against slavery and voting should be removed. Those amendments added critical individual rights protections. But amendments monkeying with government alone haven’t quite worked out as intended.