Dominion Energy's new ship may hold the key to U.S. offshore wind energy

[@gavinlenobel174]

It’s not first of its kind…. It’s first of its kind in the US. Welcome to Europe from decades ago….

[@nueat6]

no one here cares about Europe.

[@MM-sf3rl]

I care about Europe and China who are making America look like a Dutch windmill. Thank you Joe Biden for moving the US forward.

[@TheJensss]

​@@nueat6correct, because US is the only country in the world 🤦

[@nueat6]

@@TheJensss womp womp what happen you sad we don't care about other countries. some yall need to understand we only care what state were in not even the country unless we have people like you who feel we should care about other countries then its Murica all the way. So cry me a river. 😭😛😂

[@davidanalyst671]

The USA doesn't want to be like Europe. Europe was in a depression because they were dependent on Russian oil, and Electricity prices 10X'ed.

[@ExceptionalLibra]

We know why America is lagging behind. It feels intentional by certain people.

[@waltwenzel9549]

Like maybe big oil companies? Ya think?

[@crazyyoutuberguy]

America is lagging behind?, oh the metric system.. right

[@carholic-sz3qv]

@@waltwenzel9549 nonsense!!!! to build those things they litteray are using oilfiel technology and oil, to build the standing/floating mats to laying the cables undersea to connect further on land and much more, the cable insulation in itself it full of plastics or petroleum products, there is oil literaly everywhere you look at.

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

Clean energy is good. Offshore wind farms is not clean energy though… we already had a blade break off a turbine from 30mph winds. Ocean and beaches filled with sharp fiberglass. It’s 2024 isn’t there a better idea?

[@sweeeetteeeeth]

THIS is the green energy economy, right here, there is nearly limitless prosperity in building better, greener infrastructure, THANK YOU, president joe biden!!

[@MM-sf3rl]

💙🇺🇸Biden/Harris🇺🇸💙 272,000 new American jobs in May - Thanks Joe. 💙🇺🇸Biden/Harris🇺🇸💙

[@jackred2362]

This is classic Dominion greenwashing. Get a government subsidised green project, paid by taxpayer's money. While paying no/little taxes back. In the mean time, ramp up oil and gas pipelines.

[@MM-sf3rl]

@@jackred2362 Yes, in Alaska he green-lighted ConocoPhillips Willow project and Santo’s Pikka project. But, without some back scratching Lisa Markowski would not have voted for the IRA. I guess you can’t get off the heroin until you get some methadone.

[@carholic-sz3qv]

everything possible with the technology of oil and oil.

[@steveburke7675]

I'm sure the GOP will be doing everything to block it, because..........that's what they do.

[@lokesh303101]

Yes!

[@Anubis-k2c]

Thank you workers for hard working

[@ericlarsen1920]

You need to type English correctly!

[@MM-sf3rl]

In Anchorage, Alaska, a 250MW gas power plant took 3 years to construct. SunZia (New Mexico to AZ) wind turbine project will take 3 years for 3,500MW and provide transmission lines. I think this points to why 90%+ of new energy in the US is solar or wind.

[@davidanalyst671]

its the cost. natgas combined cycle, solar and ONSHORE wind all cost around the same LCOE. The only difference is that mother nature occastionally turns off the wind and solar

[@WELVAS.]

​@@davidanalyst671Yes but that's why we have battery storage

[@Deathbywill]

Maybe get rid of the Jones act lol

[@davidanalyst671]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWqQooOohKqSjK8

[@db1418]

They are turbines not wind mills, as they don't mill wheat using wind.

[@DCGreenZone]

Some day we will look back on all of this.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

More cat 4 or 5 hurricanes? Have you seen what a tornado does to one of these?

[@jasonschaeffer72]

In the meantime. We'll be looking forward 😂

[@DCGreenZone]

@@jasonschaeffer72 One can only hope that the madness ends soon.

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

@@Patrick-yh5yddid you see what 30 mph winds do to these in the ocean. Look up vineyard wind blade failure. The ocean and beaches are filled with sharp fiberglass.

[@michaelanderson3096]

Solar energy @ batteries storage is the way to go.

[@robertsmith5744]

Stay with DC on most devices, fridge, lighting, TV etc.

[@michaelanderson3096]

@@robertsmith5744 Use alternating current (AC) to charge vehicles.

[@Neojhun]

BOTH you need all of it as manufacturing capacity is the limitation.

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

Anything is better than putting this in the ocean.

[@santaclaus0815]

Apparently the ship builds the entire wind power plant. In terms of the work process and shipbuilding, some specialization would probably be better. For example, one ship for the foundation, setting up the mast and the generator and a separate ship that transports and assembles the blades.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

Knowing Unions I bet he takes twice as long to build then planned.

[@joshuajuarez3471]

The Pacific Osprey is a boat of same type that built the dantysk field outside Germany

[@slim5816]

Germany has this for quite some time already. They make it look like an innovation

[@steveburke7675]

Of course Germany had this first...a result of being dependent on Putin for energy.

[@slim5816]

@@steveburke7675 respectfully you gotta be confusing something. The gas crisis thing happened only a few years ago. Germany had these ships since 2003.

[@steveburke7675]

@@slim5816 I didn't mention the "gas crisis". I mentioned Germany being dependent upon Russia for energy. That's been the case for decades. N America supplies it's own energy.

[@joshuajuarez3471]

It’s the first US is building

[@foodiepamalama711]

The Jones act is inevitably pigeon hole the shipment of product. They need to refine it for sure

[@davidanalyst671]

The Jones act is the best kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWqQooOohKqSjK8

[@jeffbenton6183]

We stopped subsidizing our shipyards in the 80s. That's arguably the bigger problem. Several other seafaring nations have something like the Jones Act on their books, but they heavily subsidize their shipyards so companies can actually afford their buy local. I'm not really a fan of subsidizing entire industries, but shipbuilding is one of the few things nations must subsidize.

[@itaygothelf3952]

Great

[@rose415]

What happens when trump ends all green energy

[@MM-sf3rl]

We fall further behind China.

[@Neojhun]

Rolling BLACK OUTs. Is the literal technical outcome of ending green energy. It's too much of the grid to replace.

[@Neojhun]

Rolling BLACKOUTs. That is the literal technical outcome if green energy was ended. It is too big a proportion of the US Grid Mix to replace.

[@Heavilymoderated]

I don’t know, but I’m out of here if he wins. Everything is taking way too long without him as it is.

[@beyondfossil]

A) Trump and his administration do not run the world and is still subject to international economics, and renewables are killing it on the economic front B) Renewable energy (wind & photovoltaics) had some of its fastest growth during the Trump 2016-2020 Trump administration C) No president can just "end all green energy" as the US is mostly a market economy

[@hotchango1507]

What I see is an improvement to my already great spear fishing grounds 😊😊

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

What are you talking about!!’ Hahah my point exactly. Dude do some research. Check the places that already have wind mills in the ocean. There’s no fish around them.

[@hotchango1507]

@@DeadVegaInSpain “ReSeaRcH” it can attract fish or deter them. I am optimistic that a wind mill farm at the mouth of the CB will make for a great ecosystem to the area. Move on lil bro.

[@williamkeating6406]

If this is the same Dominion company that makes the voting machines. We will be in good shape.

[@Gregoryking-e9q]

It's called work in progress tell me went you don't have challenges when you build a huge project like you or build for the future of the country

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

Each windmill should have a small high dock attached for fishermen to pay to be dropped off for 2 or 3 days for fishing. A tourist attraction.

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

No. These turbines destroy marine life. Vineyard wind off Massachusetts in that same area usually 6 million lbs of squid caught between may to July. This year fishermen saw 6 million lbs of dead squid that rotted. Other marine life couldn’t eat it, humans didn’t eat it and it also shows that obviously these things destroy marine life…

[@Gregoryking-e9q]

First Europe being doing this for a long time more their the usa .and went start to get a hand on this you see

[@davidgrochmal6023]

If mad man trump gets elected we can kiss all of this good by !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ritaawudey4451]

Keep living in hallucinations. Trump will win over a dementia Biden

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

I’m crossing my fingers I can’t wait to kiss this crap good bye.

[@markm6488]

Texas jobs 🏆

[@christheesfeld5677]

What's the cost benefit? Cost per MW per its lifetime?

[@MM-sf3rl]

In Anchorage, Alaska, a 250MW gas power plant took 3 years to construct. SunZia (New Mexico to AZ) will take 3 years for 3,500MW and provide transmission lines. I think this point to why 90%+ of new energy in the US is solar or wind.

[@Neojhun]

ROI break even is just over several years, service life is 25 years. Companies are only doing this because giant wind turbines are very profitable because the sheer amount of energy they deliver.

[@MM-sf3rl]

@@Neojhun That’s sounds probable. I would think in 25 years changing them out will not be any hard than the original new construction and there should be an efficiency improvement.

[@christheesfeld5677]

Thanks for the feedback

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

This is going to triple your electric bill.

[@hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf]

FC

[@moonsanIVVVImoon]

🤨

[@danielmcinnes20]

👍👌🇨🇦

[@LevisTheWise]

Don't tell Trump, he will tax or cancel it - just like all renewable energy initiatives. Gas Money Is Big Money

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

This is why Trump will definitely make it in. Popular vote doesn’t count because America has a bunch of slow 18 year olds. The electoral college check out what will actually make the business of America run better. They’re not thinking about people’s feelings. The electoral college knows this is a waste. We have enough oil in America to easily last the next 2000 years. That’s what the scientist say. It s also a fact that there’s not a thing humans could ever do to stop the world from going through its natural course. Global watering/ climate change is the worm on the hook for the slow to bite down onto.

[@koda3967]

2:07 🤔So they're putting these *Uber expensive* #MegaTurbines off the coasts of the #US in the places where y'all receive the most #HurricaneWeather? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@citizenzero6140]

Windmills are toy generators susceptible to a multitude of issues.

[@magaareinbredhillbillies]

they put oil wells in tornado alley.

[@SteveConrad-l9j]

There are thousands in the North Sea and the winds are hurricane strength.

[@citizenzero6140]

@@SteveConrad-l9j Theres a big difference between hurricane strength and an actual hurricane.

[@matt45540]

When's the last time Virginia had any sort of major hurricane. They do get up that way but they're relatively weak by the time they get there.

[@greggreg2263]

I thought those big windmills were obsolete, and there was a new better design?

[@MacDaddy8200]

Nope the new offshore mills are huge with almost 250m wingspan and produces 15-18 MW

[@matt45540]

The larger the better for now, there's been a lot of innovations on rooftop which specializes in capturing the air pressure developed by buildings in the wind.

[@Neojhun]

What a bunch of absurd nonsense. You have been brainwashed by BS. Ever since the 200ft class turbines were deployed over a decade ago. They proven to output and deliver a gigantic amount of electricity. No it's not a new design, it's actually aging. Don't fix what ain't broke.

[@DeadVegaInSpain]

Yeah we had wind mills and we evolved from there so hey let’s go back 100s of years. Funny how the left doesn’t want to go back to the way things were but they want to go back 100s of years. 👏

[@thomasporti7744]

Lets see how this will be a disaster

[@robertsmith5744]

Offshore wind turbines should only pump sea water to spin the generators that are on shore, think.

[@matt45540]

How would pumping sea water generate electricity? Wouldn't be better off using the wind to generate the electricity directly like we do now

[@Neojhun]

That would have extremely poor efficiency of power transmission. To the point it won't even be commercially viable.

[@5thgen916]

The US has many challenges Europe doesn't below the water. Every engineering option has less than ideal tradeoffs due to the unique subsea conditions. That is why there isn't a large list of developers.

[@sweeeetteeeeth]

the us has more challenges than europe above the water, namely that we've got a rightwing, anti-science, fascist movement anchoring us to the bankrupt ideas of the past, and worse, trying to drag us back to them and undo the progress we've made. if we didn't have such a glut of ignorant, selfish rightwing morons we could have made progress on this issue decades ago.

[@TH-yum]

Umm I think hurricanes are quite popular in that area. Build and destroy with little investment returns.

[@matt45540]

Virginia? I live in Georgia and hurricanes aren't even coming down here. The Carolina coast sees some occasionally but they're generally weak by the time they get there

[@TH-yum]

@@matt45540 I'm in central FL. GA gets them by far! I see it them make that northern swing up your state every year once they get near the FL straits.

[@steveburke7675]

Oh wow! the engineers forgot about that!!! /s

[@dougby1328]

Waste of us taxes money so after this build who's gonna take care of it ?? Steel don't mix well with sea salt water. Us taxes payer gonna be paying millions to keep up with the maintenance .

[@macriggland6526]

Who is going to be doing maintenance? Men and women with maritime skills and very solid swimming backgrounds. In other words, people who I’m glad are getting paid a lot. Don’t care if it is wasteful.

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

And here we were thinking Coal Power Plants were maintenance free. Where steel has to deal with hot fire and high pressure steam....

[@steven4315]

So you're saying steel ships don't make any sense? Guess we should have stuck with wooden ships.

[@matt45540]

It's being built by a power company and like any power generation project is being subsidized by the government. Would do the same thing for saying oil pipeline, or a peaker plant.

[@steveburke7675]

You're very grumpy Doug...................and misinformed.

[@JJarvo801]

large wind is dumb and expensive, hurts local fishing comunitys. nuclear is cheeper and less impact

[@cameronf3343]

Actually fish and marine life love offshore turbines and various European markets even farm seafood on turbines.

[@histind]

Wind expensive compared to nuclear, in what galaxy? Not the Milky Way.

[@timtruett5184]

You're assertion about cost is bass ackwards.

[@JJarvo801]

@@timtruett5184 And what's the lifespan and maintenance cost of these huge structures

[@JJarvo801]

@cameronf3343 No they don't you ruin critical habitat by anchoring these things off shore. They become a navigation hazard for boats and they close off the fishing area for the locals. This is a big money Grab by big corporation there's better solutions. What's the lifespan of maintenance cost at each turbine?What do they do with the blades? they don't last that long. You should look up what happened to fishing.Communities after the wind turbines in Europe

[@ion951]

Those turbines leak oil and it goes right into the ocean..

[@magaareinbredhillbillies]

so do oil wells. had a big oil spill a few years ago.

[@matthewkantar5583]

@ion951 This is one of the funnier tacks desperate concern trolls have taken. How does this purported leaking compare to say, the Exxon Valdez leak? Or Blue Water Horizon? 🙄🙄🙄

[@sweeeetteeeeth]

@@matthewkantar5583 not to mention their claim is total bs

[@matt45540]

Like we do with things on shore, there's a containment tank underneath. A lot of engines and power equipment come with a catch area designed to handle all of the fluids in the engine plus 10% like on large generators. We have the standards thanks to the EPA

[@jakekisiel7399]

There goes all the whales 🐋

[@benedibrava]

alternative energy is causing pain nothing can replace oil

[@MichaelDeHaven]

More energy sources is good for us all.

[@benedibrava]

@@MichaelDeHaven more energy source is good? cool, but to try to replace oil, is playing with destruction, famine, pain...; but alternative energy is just money laundering

[@MichaelDeHaven]

Realistically we're not "replacing" oil, or gas, anytime soon. It's more a matter of making sure more of our energy comes from renewables as our energy needs grow. But the US is up to about 20% of its energy from renewables. Not bad for such a new tech, especially with solar now cheaper than coal. Some fuels will go earlier like coal, but that industry hasn't been growing for a long time. I'd like to see nuclear form our base load for electricity. Gas and batteries can then meet the difference(usually peak demand) between nuclear and solar/wind. Oil will be needed for fertilizer and plastics for a long time to come. At least without some incredible breakthrough.

[@midknight]

Nothing will replace oil. Cos we are gonna run out of it eventually. That’s why we need alternative energy sources.

[@JLocke573]

@@benedibrava When has an alternative energy source caused "destruction, famine, and pain"? Can you give me an example?

[@douglasengle2704]

This is crazy! This offshore wind farm is incredibly expensive, is in a hurricane prone area that will rip apart wind turbines with a large storm, it will impact huge noise into the water disturbing fisheries with an expected wholesale price for electricity of over $0.075 per kWh which is over double the cost of off-peak wholesale electric power meaning it will have no market. It is expected to be a forced buy where residences will be forced to pay for it meaning fewer grocery dollars for them. All to enrich a few at great expense to people least able to afford it. Wind turbines don't produce dispatchable power. It has to be conditioned typically by expensive to run natural gas turbines. The reason for renewable energy is to save other fuels. Global warming has been dead at about 1°C since 1992 with no known cause as of 2024. Earth's saturated greenhouse effect from water vapor can't have its overall effect changed by other greenhouse gases. On average CO2 has 1/4 of 1% share in earth's greenhouse effect.

[@matthewkantar5583]

@douglasengle2704 Amazing, every word of what you just said is wrong.

[@JJarvo801]

Local wind is a better solution kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2PLmGmjrb1qbLssi=08QGLOhXlqs0irdi

[@alt51801]

Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work harder.

[@DeathRainsz]

No it’s really not and we need to shut it down.

[@ClassyMonkey1212]

Why?

[@benedibrava]

more money laundering

[@timtruett5184]

More crazy talk

[@benedibrava]

​@@timtruett5184 the same people who tell you climate is getting bad, is the same ones taking your money and invest in wind turbine, solar panels, ev.... which would get destroyed if climate is bad, its like the same people who tell you ocean are rising, but take your money because they scary you with climate, to buy oceanfront homes. *humanity is full of idiots, you outsmart them again and again, they don't catch it, its like people who say biden is doing a good job, biden has no clue what job is*

[@benedibrava]

@@timtruett5184 too many idiots in world to see the obvious

[@benedibrava]

@@timtruett5184 *we can be producing more oil in USA then ever before, but if the demand is bigger than the supply, it means nothing, that's how you get high gas prices therefore inflation* Biden instead increase oil production to overcome the highest demand in history, *biden prohibited oil exploration offshore and in public lands, cancelled keystone pipeline, rejected oil from Russia like we are Ukraine even Ukraine still buying oil from Russia* created problems with Saudi by calling them murders...