Yea, the solution shouldn't be worse than the problem itself. This is very disturbing as when the ocean is unhealthy. It DOES EFECT the earth &EVERYTHING living on it. INCLUDING US. The ocean provides half of the air we breathe and without whales it affects everything else down to phytoplankton which is how the sun absorbs most of our all carbon generated on earth. (more than trees even.) These offshore wind farms are being installed in all our oceans worldwide !! 😮 We are alive because of an ecosystem that provides LIFE through energy flows. Renewables my ass !! This must be stopped.
The destruction by the wind industry and associated infrastructure is unbelievable and it is backed by our governments who chuck our money at the wind developers/operators.
I would recommend interviewing scientists like marine biologists, climatologists and oceanologists. It would be nice to hear from people who have done studies and present peer-reviewed data to back up their claims.
The gulf of Maine is beautiful. I was very lucky to see whales and the right whale less than 300 in the world. Humans are just killing our world and ourselves.
Ok, there are concerns, but everything you said was conjecture. How about studies to show what is actually happening. Perhaps once installed they create a richer bio environment? Offsetting any damage.
Turning an unspoiled, widely-varied underwater environment into a systematic grid of chrysler-building-sized synthetic structures may be more conducive for very select invasive species, like certain mussels that have attached themselves to other wind farms and biofouled the water at a level that would never have happened naturally. But when you look at what we have now, and what it would be replaced with, it's hard to see how the result could ever be described as "richer". That adjective will only apply to the developers. I would urge you to take a look at my most recent upload. The appeal to authority of "studies" that could empirically settle these questions is a nice idea, but you're asking for things that don't exist. Research that would have a shot at finding anything detrimental is simply not being done, and what little research is being done is occurring at the same pace with the development (i.e., Maine's "research array"...the results will only be tabulated after it's too late for it to inform the build, but it checks the box.) Of course, offshore in the North Atlantic is admittedly a really hard environment to study. Most efforts don't penetrate that far, and there's not much incentive for funding studies that could cut short tax-credit cash cows like OSW. While sending individuals with lab coats and test tubes out there, the best knowledge base that we have is the cumulative decades of firsthand observations from the people who spend the majority of their time out there. Do we dismiss them because they're blue-collar folk? This is an urgent subject to get right, rather than take stabs in the dark, because once the groundwork is laid, it cannot be reversed. It cannot be undone. The entire decommissioning process is simply to chop the tops off in a few decades, the labyrinthine underwater infrastructure will never be removed. With irreversible effects, it seems a little caution is warranted, something more substantial than "perhaps it will enhance the environment". It's not pet furniture in a terrarium, it's heavy industrial development. I would urge you to check out the most recent upload on here, which includes testimony froma Rhode Island fisherman who was around for the very earliest (and much smaller) deployment of OSW in US waters. He and others have attested to the fact that as soon as the 5 turbines were activated, that marked the abrupt end of the herring that had been a sustainable fishery in that area for generations. Material like this cannot be disregarded. I'd also mention - it's been almost 3 years since I cut this video. When unprecedented things are happening without any supporting study, conjecture is inevitable. In the time since, preliminary development of offshore wind has advanced in the Mid-Atlantic up to Massachusetts at a rapid pace. And everywhere that offshore wind developers send their vessels, marine mammals turn up dead at sky-high record rates. Scallops are dead in their shells at a scale that's never been observed by scallop fishermen ever before. Check out the videos I did in New Jersey that were posted on the New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association channel from December 23 thru February 24. If you look into some of this, you will see what I mean.
The problem is that we need energy and no solution is perfect. The US needs to be energy independent. Energy independence requires a multi-pronged approach, not one source. The energy producers cannot have it their way 100% of the time and the same with environmentalists.
We could be energy independent of the dementia patient would allow the drilling. Wind is never going to do the trick. But if you would like to live by one be my guest. You can endure sleepless nights due to the low frequency noise they emit.
It's like screaming into the abyss, everyone's been brainwashed that wind = good.
Holland
Yea, the solution shouldn't be worse than the problem itself. This is very disturbing as when the ocean is unhealthy. It DOES EFECT the earth &EVERYTHING living on it. INCLUDING US. The ocean provides half of the air we breathe and without whales it affects everything else down to phytoplankton which is how the sun absorbs most of our all carbon generated on earth. (more than trees even.) These offshore wind farms are being installed in all our oceans worldwide !! 😮 We are alive because of an ecosystem that provides LIFE through energy flows. Renewables my ass !! This must be stopped.
Very well spoken about the Marine Ecosystem Jason Joyce
Wind power is not the answer. So expensive to build and maintain. How does it compare to deep sea rigs, eco damage in exchange for energy?
Massive oil spills? 😂😂😂
The destruction by the wind industry and associated infrastructure is unbelievable and it is backed by our governments who chuck our money at the wind developers/operators.
The same could be said about the oil and coal industry. Heck, governments even go to war over oil.
I would recommend interviewing scientists like marine biologists, climatologists and oceanologists. It would be nice to hear from people who have done studies and present peer-reviewed data to back up their claims.
The gulf of Maine is beautiful. I was very lucky to see whales and the right whale less than 300 in the world. Humans are just killing our world and ourselves.
Kick the studies down the road. Typically a big business outlook on anything.
It is hard to believe that this is happening, what happened to logic?
Money.
Logic would suggest that underwater military SONAR arrays are disrupting the natural SONAR of the whales. Think about it.
This video shows that humanity is doomed
I heard this is the reason why the Orcas are sinking yachts almost killing p
Ok, there are concerns, but everything you said was conjecture.
How about studies to show what is actually happening.
Perhaps once installed they create a richer bio environment? Offsetting any damage.
Turning an unspoiled, widely-varied underwater environment into a systematic grid of chrysler-building-sized synthetic structures may be more conducive for very select invasive species, like certain mussels that have attached themselves to other wind farms and biofouled the water at a level that would never have happened naturally. But when you look at what we have now, and what it would be replaced with, it's hard to see how the result could ever be described as "richer". That adjective will only apply to the developers. I would urge you to take a look at my most recent upload.
The appeal to authority of "studies" that could empirically settle these questions is a nice idea, but you're asking for things that don't exist. Research that would have a shot at finding anything detrimental is simply not being done, and what little research is being done is occurring at the same pace with the development (i.e., Maine's "research array"...the results will only be tabulated after it's too late for it to inform the build, but it checks the box.) Of course, offshore in the North Atlantic is admittedly a really hard environment to study. Most efforts don't penetrate that far, and there's not much incentive for funding studies that could cut short tax-credit cash cows like OSW. While sending individuals with lab coats and test tubes out there, the best knowledge base that we have is the cumulative decades of firsthand observations from the people who spend the majority of their time out there. Do we dismiss them because they're blue-collar folk? This is an urgent subject to get right, rather than take stabs in the dark, because once the groundwork is laid, it cannot be reversed. It cannot be undone. The entire decommissioning process is simply to chop the tops off in a few decades, the labyrinthine underwater infrastructure will never be removed. With irreversible effects, it seems a little caution is warranted, something more substantial than "perhaps it will enhance the environment". It's not pet furniture in a terrarium, it's heavy industrial development.
I would urge you to check out the most recent upload on here, which includes testimony froma Rhode Island fisherman who was around for the very earliest (and much smaller) deployment of OSW in US waters. He and others have attested to the fact that as soon as the 5 turbines were activated, that marked the abrupt end of the herring that had been a sustainable fishery in that area for generations. Material like this cannot be disregarded.
I'd also mention - it's been almost 3 years since I cut this video. When unprecedented things are happening without any supporting study, conjecture is inevitable. In the time since, preliminary development of offshore wind has advanced in the Mid-Atlantic up to Massachusetts at a rapid pace. And everywhere that offshore wind developers send their vessels, marine mammals turn up dead at sky-high record rates. Scallops are dead in their shells at a scale that's never been observed by scallop fishermen ever before. Check out the videos I did in New Jersey that were posted on the New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association channel from December 23 thru February 24. If you look into some of this, you will see what I mean.
Damn!
whales are dropping like flies off New Jersey coast but no one is reacting!
YES!☠️☠️☠️
Same goes for the aquaculture
Well look at the whales
90 percent of the Humpback whale population have signs/ injuries of fishing gear entanglements.
Move forward and get information later. Seems to be the way the world goes now. Nothing is logical anymore.
The problem is that we need energy and no solution is perfect. The US needs to be energy independent. Energy independence requires a multi-pronged approach, not one source.
The energy producers cannot have it their way 100% of the time and the same with environmentalists.
yeah, so close all the pipelines...
We could be energy independent of the dementia patient would allow the drilling. Wind is never going to do the trick. But if you would like to live by one be my guest. You can endure sleepless nights due to the low frequency noise they emit.
No the siesmic activity generated by Big oil is not worth it.
Nucleur power prib best. Honestly if you think about it.