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I am 57 and never have I witnessed a public utility drop prices for any real length of time. I dont expect the energy from offshore wind to drop cost to consumer. I do think that clean renewable energy is the future and necessary and support multiple avenues including modern nuclear and offshore wind. Placement is a key and the farms off MV & Block were carefully selected. Im good with those. I dont know enough about NJ & NY areas to have an opinion. I am opposed to farms north of Cape Cod as teh bottom is much different and there is a lot of essential fish habitats that I am opposed to allowing damage.

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Originally Posted by redlite (Post 1241895)

Been on a job in south end of New Bedford for past few months and been observing. Son and I drive by them putting them together every day and the size of them is over whelmimg when u actually get close. Absolutely massive as well as the equipement to assemble.
The blades are so big u could literally drive a vechile into them.
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we have fields and fields of them here in texas - up in the panhandle. driving past them its almost hard to comprehend how big they are and how vast these "wind farms" are. Every time i drive south to austin i see multiple trucks carrying the blades north. a singular blade requires a special truck and wide load designation.

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Originally Posted by BasicPatrick (Post 1242006)

For recreational anglers the wind farms south of MV are going to be instant artificial reefs. They wlll be mahi and black sea bass factories and eventually become destination fishing locations. We worked hard to make sure once construction is done in an area we will be able to fish right up against them...similar to oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The wind farms will displace some commercial fishing activity but not nearly as much as industry trade groups claim. A lot of the noise the commercial industry is making is all about getting paid...and they are being paid quite well.

This is not a suggestion that there should or should not be ocean wind farms or any of that, simply my observation from a recent trip

Down here in the gulf its truly amazing how much sea life congregates around the oil rigs. Tuna fishing near a rig in 2,000 feet of water last month we saw - yellowfin tuna, hammerheads, a blue marlin, white marlin, a barracuda, a tiger shark, and tons of rainbait. On the way out around inshore platforms there were acres of pogies and redfish all over. on the way in we caught tons of red snapper that were congregated on closed wellheads in 500 feet of water. pretty cool. it was like being a national geographic episode.