OCMD is an absolute dump. The thought of renting a airbnb in there is truly scary. Aren't you in SC? So many better places to go.
word, i honestly don't know a thing about OCMD other than i was talking to a guy a while back who surfed up there, and a chick who came down from living over there. probably some better places on the MD shoreline to spend a wknd. i heard a lotta bad things about Varginia, and rarely some good spots, and i dunno about Delaware to the north either
However oil is not a tax payer subsidized effort. Windmills don't produce energy that's marketable. If windmills were our answer, then I would have a different opinion. But there not. Windmills are stupid hippie nonsense and they can barely produce enough energy to run their own electrical system. 2 billion in tax dollars because a bank won't loan money for a project that will fail unless you keep permanent tax subsidies and high electrical cost for consumers And their not even good for the environment. Dumb hippie liberal big government wealth redistribution bullshyte
150,000 to 200,000 homes estimate is a lie. The math is also based on the 2 billion thrown at it. How long will 2 billion power 200,000 houses? Assuming you get interest on the 2 billion at 7% and you buy the power at standard rates, 2 billion will power 200,000 homes forever. Consumers rates will also be hiked to offset the higher cost of producing energy. Making a company rich off government grants and making the middle class poorer. It's economics
I'm only talking about the environmental impact... 'cause that's what I know a little something about. I have no idea about the economics of it.
Wind turbines kill an estimated 140,000 to 328,000 birds each year in North America, making it the most threatening form of green energy. California’s Altamont Pass wind “farm” killed an average of 116 Golden Eagles annually. This adds up to 2,900 dead “goldies” since it was built 25 years ago. Altamont is the biggest sinkhole for the species, but not the only one, and industry-financed research claiming that California’s GE population is stable is but a white-wash. Eagles are not the only victims. Smallwood also estimated that Altamont killed an average of 300 red-tailed hawks, 333 American kestrels and 380 burrowing owls annually – plus even more non-raptors, including 2,526 rock doves and 2,557 western meadowlarks. In 2012, breaking the European omerta on wind farm mortality, the Spanish Ornithological Society (SEO/Birdlife) reviewed actual carcass counts from 136 monitoring studies. They concluded that Spain’s 18,000 wind turbines are killing 6-18 million birds and bats yearly. Extrapolating that and similar (little publicized) German and Swedish studies, 39,000 U.S. wind turbines would not be killing “only” 440,000 birds (USFWS, 2009) or “just” 573,000 birds and 888,000 bats (Smallwood, 2013), but 13-39 million birds and bats every year. However, this carnage is being covered up by self-serving and/or politically motivated government agencies, wind industry lobbyists, environmental groups and ornithologists, under a pile of misleading studies paid for with more taxpayer money. Wildlife expert Jim Wiegand has documented how areas searched under wind turbines are still confined to 200-foot radiuses, even though modern monster turbines catapult 80% of bird and bat carcasses much further. Windfarm owners, operating under voluntary (!) USFWS guidelines, commission studies that search much-too-small areas, look only once every 30-90 days, ensuring that scavengers remove most carcasses, and ignore wounded birds that happen to be found within search perimeters. These research protocols are designed to guarantee extremely low mortality statistics, hiding the true death tolls – and the USFWS seems inclined to let the deception continue. In addition, bird mortality data are now considered to be the property of windfarm owners, which means the public no longer has a right to know.
My wife has been telling me this for years and the wind people still have not come up with a solution. I thought a big screen around each fan would work, but too much maintenance and corrosion. Like LBCrew said, no easy answer, but I don't think wind is the solution to our energy challenges going forward. Solar voltaic film - the Chinese and Germans are all over it. That may be a long term answer, but clean nuclear power generation is where things are trying to get to - big money likes it, and the technology is much better now, as long as you don't put them on fault lines, duh!
if instead of giant production facilitates raping the taxpayer, they gave grants to homeowners for solar/windmill combo at each house, thus decentralizing and letting people make their own energy we could get someplace with more robust energy grid that is more environmentally friendly and not susceptible to hacks and other fvckery the whole process is a shell game to take taxpayer money and distribute it to their cronies
They won't even let us grow our own food, do you really think they want us to create our own energy. A little more independence and we won't need government; that won't happen.
OCMD has beautiful beaches that are very fun for families in the summer ( I hate tourists, but I like to think of the kids from PA, DC, Baltimore and surrounding areas that look forward all year to coming to the beach as I did) Remember being young and building sand castles, collecting shells and riding waves straight on a cheap bodyboard.
Thanks Archy I never knew the impact of windfarms and the effect on moisture and insects, that effect crops. Another reason to hate wind farms. This article is for you ThankfulsaurusWrecks ya Luau boy https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2017/03/01/wind-farms-killing-more-bats-than-expected-2/ It's about big wind turbine companies begging the government to allow them to kill more bats
Right?!.... Funny how those memories stick with you. Memories of the beach and the ocean from my pre-surfing days are my most strong and vivid memories I have from when I was a kid. And to think that any little kid scrambling around on the beach today might think back on their own memories in the same way.... pretty cool how timeless that is.
My wife and I (Both land locked upstate New Yorkers at the time) Used to go to OCMD for a week in the summer in the 70's. No, we weren't married; we didn't even know eachother. Sunilarity... We were pre-teen and young teens then. Caught my first waves on an inflatable mat back then. Also learned the purpose/importance of a rash guard, too. Say what you want about these forums... I actually did a little research on wind power after reading these posts. What seems like a good idea no brainer clean energy slam dunk has a hellava lot of problems.
Two years ago, a student in my school did her senior project on wind turbines, focusing on their design and efficiency. Being a Marine Science and Technology-themed school, her research took into account the design problems associated with offshore wind power. It's amazing how many variables there are, and how sophisticated the tech has become. Today, it's considered a "mature" technology by many (which is why a lot of countries are eliminating subsidies... the sector should be financing itself now) but that couldn't be further from the truth. There's a LOT of room for improvement.
Yes, CB, it's all true: SI Fourume is the onliest place to venture for not only sound medicale advisements but also scientific asspects.
Here's some more enlightenment... Birds be fvcked mang... Solar Energy... Water birds think the collectors are ponds and lakes.. The Associated Press reported last week on “streamers” at BrightSource Energy’s concentrated solar plant -- a futuristic-looking facility that gamers pass as they drive through the desert between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. That’s the name given to birds as their feathers ignite, mid-air, after flying through a concentrated beam of sunlight. Such hapless birds can be burned to death, killed by brute force when they crash to the ground, or eaten a predator swoops in to claim their maimed body. These are just some of the ways that large solar plants can kill birds. It’s not known how many birds are being felled by the groundswell of such facilities, but the numbers are high enough to concern bird and conservation groups -- regardless of the environmental benefits of solar power.
Plasma Gasification = 2 solutions, takes our waste, garbage, refuge and turns it to energy, secondly reclaims leftover product for use in other materials. But all plants have been mothballed bc they're not "profitable." The USS Gerald Ford actually has this type of plant on-board. BTW I can't think of any scenario where rape is funny f*goobs
There is a lot of research in the use of Algae going on right now and its use as a future energy source. Pretty interesting that it can produce a renewable oil for energy.
