{"id":63865,"date":"2026-05-08T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63865"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:00:07","slug":"at-some-point-we-need-to-admit-that-it-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63865","title":{"rendered":"At Some Point We Need To Admit That It Doesn’t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about the Vineyard Wind farm, off the Nantucket coast.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In the middle of April came word that one of the two partners in the project, GE Renewables, a subsidiary of GE Vernova (which made the infamous blades used in the project), had declared itself no longer a player. It was walking away.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This caused much angst amongst everyone, especially the Vineyard Wind development<\/a> (with its offshore parents, Iberola and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners), which declared the nearly complete $4.5 billion (with a ‘B’) project could not be finished without GE Renewables full participation. They filed a lawsuit to force GE into honoring the contract.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within 24 hours, Vineyard Wind\u00a0had a<\/a>\u00a0ruling from a Suffolk Superior court judge<\/a>\u00a0telling GE they could not walk away, and to get back to work, calling the GE complaints ‘fanciful,’<\/strong><\/p>\n

…As of yesterday, the Massachusetts judge has agreed to rehear the case because the wind farm is now supposedly ‘operational,’<\/a> which completely negates Vineyard Wind’s arguments against GE Renewables’ exit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…What makes this tit for tat argument interesting are the details. What, exactly, is ‘operational’ in a wind farm?<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Vineyard Wind, they still need GE around because they’re only partially operational, which sounds kind of like being only ‘mostly dead.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article quotes The Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power:<\/a><\/p>\n

…When you see the blades spinning, the turbines do not engage the generator to produce power until 6 miles per hour. After 6 mph, they start generating, and they don’t produce full power until around 23 miles per hour. In other words, a 13 megawatt wind at around 12 miles per hour may only produce half its power.<\/em><\/span> Additionally, the turbines are automatically shut down during storms due to high winds or shifting winds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The average wind speed off Massachusetts is around 20 miles per hour.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at Hot Air notes:<\/p>\n

According to the wind farm operator in court in their lawsuit against GE Renewables, it will never pay for itself<\/em> over the – God willing – 20-year life of the project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will never come close.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nonetheless, there are still silly cultists chanting the mantra, as yet another renewable boondoggle plays out in public.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

…Vineyard Wind’s Final Environmental Impact Statement concludes: \u201c…it is anticipated there will be NO collective impact on global warming as a result of offshore wind projects.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a shame the same couldn’t be said for consumers’ wallets, the national budget, the ocean, or sea creatures in it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See also a previous article<\/a> on the environmental problems caused by the Vineyard Wind project. This project has been a boondoggle from the start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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