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When a public policy decision is flawed, and the reasons it is flawed are simple and obvious, and the consequences are huge and costly, the appropriate response for a concerned observer is to call attention to the looming debacle. Not just once, but over and over and over again. An example of an impending economic and environmental disaster is the special interest-driven mad rush to deploy floating wind turbines off the California coast. It’s insane when anyone seriously searches on the topic of offshore wind in the context of California’s overall energy strategy. |
Offshore Wind is a Catastrophic Scam 
by Edward Ring
It’s about time Californians of all ideological persuasions wake up and stop what is possibly the most economically wasteful and environmentally destructive project in American history: the utility-scale adoption of wind energy. And with that acknowledgment of bias clearly stated, readers are invited to review this week’s selections and make up their own minds! You will not find very much information critical of wind in a Google search. For example, the term “evidence wind power harms whales” will turn up an uninterrupted assortment of articles and reports attacking that assertion as “misinformation.” Evidence, for which there is plenty, is nowhere to be found. When it comes to wind, along with most other critical issues surrounding water, energy, and the environment, search engine bias is alive and well. Algorithms are neutral. People who code them are not.
The California Legislature intends to despoil our coastline and coastal waters with floating wind turbines, 20+ miles offshore, tethered to the sea floor 4,000 feet beneath the waves. Along with tethering cables, high voltage wires will descend from each of these noisy, 1,000-foot tall leviathans, but we’re to assume none of this will disrupt the migrations of our treasured Cetaceans and other marine and avian life, not the electric fields emanating from hundreds (thousands?) of 20+ mile long live power lines laid onto the ocean floor, nor from the construction, the maintenance, or the new ports, ships, and submersibles. Offshore wind energy is not worth the cost. End it. End it now.
Newsom and the Legislature Send the Dept. of Water Resources Shopping for Offshore Wind
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If you were naïve enough to believe the dominant media and the extreme environmentalists, you might think that folks are ready to ditch their gas-guzzling cars to buy electric vehicles (EVs). Some inconvenient facts, however, demonstrate otherwise.
