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Ocean Industrializing Politicians, read this. Burning Cash: The Staggering Cost of Offshore Wind Power.
August 10, 2021
International News, National, Offshore Wind/Industrialization
The true cost of wind power is staggering, the cost of offshore wind power is astronomical: the latter is more than six times the cost of gas-fired power. The operating cost of maintaining any industrial machine in a marine environment starts out high and only increases over time, thanks to the corrosive power of saltwater and salt-laden sea air. Take a machine that, at best, has an economic lifespan of around 12 years and it doesn’t take long before the cost of operating a wind turbine offshore gets out of control. Andrew Montford runs the numbers on what is a staggeringly expensive way of generating a trivial amount of sporadically delivered electricity. >click to read< 11:23
