According to a 2021 report, the United States of America uses 97,331,601,000,000,000 Btu, or about 97 quadrillion Btu (British thermal units) of energy per year. Wind energy contributes 3.24% of the 12% of U.S. energy use that is renewable, with the remaining 88% coming from natural gas (32%), petroleum (36%) nuclear electric power (8%), and coal (11%).
The Biden-Harris administration is pushing hard their wind energy ambitions by granting offshore leases on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Leases are being sought for areas as vast as 3.9 million acres 20 nautical miles off the central Atlantic shore and about 1.2 million acres 12 nautical miles off the coast of Oregon, which will permanently scar these shorelines.
What is worse than thinking of these huge wind farms off our coast, consisting of tens of thousands of windmills, is the fact that the bulk of the companies seeking these leases are foreign companies that get U.S. tax breaks. Something I found odd is that “as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” wind energy companies get major tax breaks “whether the technology worked or not.” It seems odd that you get the money whether your technology works or not, but not making monetary sense is typical of Biden economics.
boats aren’t environmentally friendly either. neither are cars, planes, space junk, or trash, but there they all are, in the sea.
GO NUCLEAR !!!!