The true cost of chaotically intermittent wind power is staggering; the cost of offshore wind power is astronomical.
The capital cost of spearing these things offshore is multiples greater than doing so and some dimwitted farmer’s back paddock. Recouping that capital cost means that offshore wind power is 25 times more expensive than coal, gas or nuclear.
Jonathan Lesser runs the numbers below, in relation to a herd of colossal white elephants just waiting to be let loose along America’s Atlantic coast.
Offshore wind power vast boondoggle that New York can no longer afford
New York Post
Jonathan Lesser
30 July 2020
Offshore wind is the renewable-energy industry’s shiny new toy. Led by New York, seven Atlantic-coast states have now imposed mandates to expand offshore wind use over the next decade, with the Empire State last week soliciting bids for an additional 2,500 megawatts of offshore power, on…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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