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@BigBearBloo9 ай бұрын
Wind, or solar, or nuclear? All of the above!
@Keepskatin9 ай бұрын
Get rid of nuclear, you toxic individuals. Fukushima is something you simple minds forgot.
@That-Guy_9 ай бұрын
And power storage>> Batteries, pumped hydro, compressed air, sand...
@mdh000009 ай бұрын
@@That-Guy_ and unicorns for transportation ...
@RealMTBAddict9 ай бұрын
No, just nuclear. The rest is a scam.
@That-Guy_9 ай бұрын
@@mdh00000 No, just EVs.
@JohnAranita9 ай бұрын
All green power to the people!!!
@lancediduck62786 ай бұрын
Its amazing how fish don't mind the noise from offshore drilling for oil. Wonder why?
@bondo65066 ай бұрын
It does bother 'em,... This is a fisheries disaster,....
@Debo67784 ай бұрын
good lord Its not noise whales and dolphins have evolved sophisticated "built-in sonar" Bet you went to a government school
@dalejones6627Ай бұрын
Did the fish tell you that?
@BobQuigley9 ай бұрын
Very good to get started, way behind. Forever wars draining money faster than ever.
@fayrowe26819 ай бұрын
Wind farms but not in the ocean
@MeBo-kp2lp3 ай бұрын
Why?
@douglasengle270422 күн бұрын
@@MeBo-kp2lp They cost twice as much per MW than onshore and their noise chases the fish away. That's what happens, but I don't know if those were their reasons.
@Jay-xr5yt9 ай бұрын
Offshore wind in the US, it's about time!
@danam02283 ай бұрын
This has been in the works for 2 decades. Has been an idea for half a century. And in this same part of the country we are seeing effects of climate change whenever we have a large rainstorm (no larger than normal although they seem more often) that is resulting in coastal flooding that has never happened before except during Nor'easters during the winter. Hopefully these engineers are taking into account more than expected rise in sea level as all projections have consistently been less than what has occurred; and we as a species need to stop overpopulating Earth while also reversing the damage we have caused and continue to cause to our home before it's too late, because this is the only home we have. There is no other Earth, and building bases on the moon and Mars are not a long term solution, require too many resources from this planet to build properly for ling term use and will most likely require far too many resources from Earth to sustain
@avlasting350728 күн бұрын
The US has 6 offshore wind turbines, Europe has 6000. Come on America.
@danam022828 күн бұрын
@@avlasting3507 but do you have 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers? 🤪
@douglasengle270422 күн бұрын
@@danam0228 Global warming has not gone up a significant 2/10°C since the late 1980s. In 1991 global warming was officially stated at 1.1°C and in 2022 global warming was officially reported at 1.06°C. Earth's greenhouse effect is always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth. There is no mechanism that would allow greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming.
@douglasengle270422 күн бұрын
@@avlasting3507 We've got affordable electricity in the USA Europe does not.
@retroonhisbikesАй бұрын
In the uk one single wind farm has cost us $12,000,000,000 and over its life time it’ll save 0.0002ppm co2 Each turbine has a diesel engine to start the rotors turning. There is no mention of co2 emissions created during construction and decommissioning. Are windfarm worth the cost, it would be far cheaper to fix any damage a slight increase in co2 would do. As we know co2 has a cooling effect in the upper atmosphere.
@alandeutsch776912 күн бұрын
wow. you should probably double check your sources
@andreanderson86399 ай бұрын
0:53 im sure we are about to get into it but what about wind change patterns etc?
@___beyondhorizon46649 ай бұрын
I recalled flying into Copenhagen in 2016, the Wave of wind turbine on the offshore just before landing. We are just starting it here???
@xchopp8 ай бұрын
That's right! We're backwards now. many of my fellow Americans don't understand, because they have never been outside the US. Here, the Republican Party -- if you can call it that -- is driving us backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that sixteenth century...
@avlasting350728 күн бұрын
Denmark has been blanketed in wind turbines for decades. Thanks to the citizens of DK for pioneering clean renewable energy. ❤🇩🇰❤
@tokegyi029 ай бұрын
Thank for knowledge
@walterulasinksi70319 ай бұрын
Deep geo thermal! Can be accomplished by existing drilling technology, is abundant to provide steam for existing turbines, and when filtered correctly can provide potable drinking water. With the consideration that such require return well shafts, All waste water can be drained in to such wells and reduce the need for wastewater treatment plants.
@shaneschnyer78179 ай бұрын
This is going to end badly.
@homewall7449 ай бұрын
Fix the grid and find ways to store mass amounts of energy -- and/or build out nuclear to be the power source when all these wind and solar systems aren't able to generate power.
@tkskagen9 ай бұрын
What about the development/installation of "Tidal Generators"?
@Mr_Battlefield9 ай бұрын
Another good source of clean energy. It's still being tested for the best methods to produce the most energy but it's another good source of clean energy.
@dertythegrowerАй бұрын
University of Michigan did that on video here.. 11 years ago on video... its called Vortex Vivace Power
@Mr_Battlefield9 ай бұрын
Just do it! It needs to be done like yesterday. Everyone should agree we all need clean energy from every source possible. The United States is so far behind in everything when it comes to clean energy. Just get it done.
@Mr_Battlefield9 ай бұрын
Wind, Solar, and Nuclear power all need to be made.
@DeadVegaInSpain8 ай бұрын
@@Mr_Battlefieldsolar and nuclear. Wind is a waste. A lot of material and space for a small rotor to spin. Hook wheels to the back of the Amtrak trains. Those wheels will spin faster and more consistent then this wind fsrm crap
@MeBo-kp2lp3 ай бұрын
First you have to explain the nuclear waste of current reactors, before you include the technology in the clean energy discussion
@Andre-qo5ek9 ай бұрын
question what are the effects to wind currents by wind farms? my thoughts being that the wind energy that is moving the turbines would have normally done something else? just my initial thought. i'll give it a search when i get a chance.
@korgpoly8009 ай бұрын
Seriously?
@Andre-qo5ek9 ай бұрын
@@korgpoly800 yes? are there any large effects of natural energy distribution. you know .. like the heat island effects of city. is there anything equivalent for off shore wind operations. it's a pretty sensible question to ask. i would guess its got a simple answer. that it does not effect wind currents enough to cause substantial harms. that winds in other layers of the stratosphere have way more significant roles. your flippant disregard is unhelpful and ignorant.
@AngelaSpearfishing7 ай бұрын
It's a good question. I wonder how these wind farms affect the animals?
@mdh000009 ай бұрын
someone will make big Incentives laundry
@1969kodiakbear9 ай бұрын
Nova. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
@Donald-un7jg4 ай бұрын
I had an idea about them, if the people who built them could cover the housing of them with solar panels, they would generate electricity even if the wind wasn't blowing.
@dodiewallace413 ай бұрын
Dilute intermittents like wind and solar are far too resource intensive and chaotic to ever be capable of doing the heavy lifting of meeting our energy needs.
@MeBo-kp2lp3 ай бұрын
That's the beginning, all known technologies were inefficient at beginnin. A bit of money and time, and you will wonder!
@dalejones6627Ай бұрын
We never thought of air pollution when gasoline cars were first used. I have never heard of the downsides of wind farms. If there is none, then the statement of “equal but opposite reactions “ is now false.
@dentonjackson3267Ай бұрын
Can we turn these offshore turbines into artificial reefs & ecosystems? Asking for my aquatic friends.
@douglasengle270422 күн бұрын
They can't be running the noise chases higher level marine life away such as fish.
@franciscoramos96929 ай бұрын
What action will they take to assure the mills won’t get hit by a boat. Radar status or maybe l light
@xchopp8 ай бұрын
Did you notice the yellow paint?
@PlumbCarton56072 ай бұрын
Most likely yellow boons with lights
@gamma1.6179 ай бұрын
That’s awesome. 20 year life span and a zero recycling option. Good job
@That-Guy_9 ай бұрын
Companies are already recycling wind turbines including the blades
@mdh000009 ай бұрын
and hundred of thousands killed birds
@RealMTBAddict9 ай бұрын
@@That-Guy_No they can't be recycled. Carbon fiber can't be recycled. They are discarded in fields all around the world.
@That-Guy_9 ай бұрын
@@mdh00000 If you are really worried about the birds you should do something about the domestic cats. They kill over a billion birds a year.
@That-Guy_9 ай бұрын
@@RealMTBAddict Upcycled is more accurate. They are being chopped up and added to concrete.
@douglasengle270422 күн бұрын
The number one problem of onshore wind farms is their beating hush noise makes normal life around them impossible especially trying to sleep. Fishermen in France protested against offshore wind farms because when operating their noise in the water chases all the fish away. Offshore wind farms cost about double per MW more than onshore wind farms which have always caused electric rates to go up. The pubic duty of an electric utility is to have electric rates as low as reasonably possible because much of the economy is supported by electricity. Global warming was officially stated at 1.1°C in 1991 and 1.06°C in 2022. There is no mechanism that would allow greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming. The back of the United Nation's IPCC science report states it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20,000 meters altitude where it is common high school level knowledge there is no greenhouse radiant energy. This is typical practice for deceptive marketing to state legal data transparency protecting the perpetrators from fraud prosecution. Earth's greenhouse effect is frequently used as a primary example to high school students of a system always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth with greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the surface that is all around us everyday and can't have its overall effect changed. There is no further greenhouse radiant energy to interact with greenhouse gases. At 1% average tropospheric water vapor over 99% of earth’s greenhouse effect is from water vapor. Water vapor would hold earth's greenhouse effect in saturation if it were the only greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. C3 plants the majority of plant life on earth would be strongly invigorated by atmospheric CO2 levels of 1200 ppm about three times what they are today greatly greening the planet.
@bonnolog6 ай бұрын
Everything has a tradeoff; we have to pick the one that damages the environment the least for the same amount of power produced.
@JonnoPlays9 ай бұрын
I love NOVA 🌀 🏖 🔋
@alandeutsch776912 күн бұрын
Oh nooo some guys on their yachts can't go deep sea fishing for a month. Whatever shall we do?!
@daineminton96879 ай бұрын
Ya know, I'd be done for living on a floating town. Work in the newer wave generators, solar & wind too; with a fish farm similar to what Brazil does off the coast. Create some jobs as power runners instead of long lines to shore, fishing farm maintenance, harvesters, processors & use waste for natural fertilizers for land. Fish farmed can be an organic barrier to disapate sound (as can large kelp beds). Kelp, seaweed, and algae are great oxygen producers & C02 storers. Idk why we also have to work against nature instead of working with it.
@DeadVegaInSpain8 ай бұрын
Giant ocean is a fish farm. To Make a farm in the ocean is a foolish idea. How about just don’t build in the ocean period. These same ideas are the reason why we have to find ways to create clean energy in the first place. At one point everyone thought gas engine vehicles were it. Now the same high ups are saying the opposite.
@daineminton96878 ай бұрын
@@DeadVegaInSpain lol, at into off coast fisheries, especially reports on Brazil.
@AngelaSpearfishing7 ай бұрын
@DeadVegaInSpain the higher ups are lairs, gas is a great energy resource for modern day where the elites keep us from free energy. What do you suppose are the effects of wind mil farms in the ocean w sonor technology and how will that affect the animals? How many whales are washing up on shore?
@Debo67789 ай бұрын
The ones on the east coast killing all the wales not enough for you?
@Nerfgunsandpancakes6 ай бұрын
That was proven to be false. Sorry try again.
@Debo67784 ай бұрын
thats not true @@Nerfgunsandpancakes
@karenfyhr23632 ай бұрын
Stop repeating lies!
@dertythegrowerАй бұрын
bet you also think leaking plants are safe though, like the two in Florida by FPL... learn better, son.
@ldolan40519 ай бұрын
Echo location will be destroyed. How stupid.
@flashflame49529 ай бұрын
It's ABOUT DAMN TIME this country caught up with so many other European countries!
@jeffgill4209 ай бұрын
Check history...we left Europe because of their bad ways...not much has changed there...we need to keep innovating and moving beyond these eco scams
@DeadVegaInSpain8 ай бұрын
@@jeffgill420exactly!!
@devinmay30388 ай бұрын
@jeffgill420 clearly you've never been to Europe. They have their issues like all countries, but they are a hell of a lot better off than we are in the US.
@flashflame49528 ай бұрын
@@devinmay3038 Clearly you are clueless.
@johnhill3539 ай бұрын
Nuclear is the only answer, off shore wind is going to be devastating.
@RealMTBAddict9 ай бұрын
Our descendants 100 years from now will look at us like we're stupid for using wind power where the blades only last 20 years.
@DeadVegaInSpain8 ай бұрын
@@RealMTBAddictI’m already feeling stupid being alive during this time.
@dertythegrowerАй бұрын
@@DeadVegaInSpainclown
@dertythegrowerАй бұрын
Florida FPL plants are leaking... you can not out debate me on this.
@dertythegrowerАй бұрын
@@RealMTBAddictNo.. you are simply not researching reality enough, kido.
@richardjoyce19 ай бұрын
About damn time!
@BobQuigley9 ай бұрын
#1 by far for a decade China. Surely PBS knows that
@jpsmith94524 ай бұрын
Fortunately, where I live 95 percent of the electricity is generated using natural gas and nuclear.
@dertythegrowerАй бұрын
its leaking also, kido... like the florida plants.. i lived near one, and they found both are in local water... facts are facts.
@jpsmith9452Ай бұрын
@@dertythegrower what’s leaking?
@SolaceEasy9 ай бұрын
Eco is nice & all, but NIMBY!
@That-Guy_9 ай бұрын
From the look of it you will not be around to see the worst of climate change. Get out of the way so the younger generations can try to stop the worst-case scenario.
@VR_Wizard5 ай бұрын
Wow i did not know that the us is so far behind wind energy just 1 turbine 😮
@arthurledezma90037 ай бұрын
Why not develop Nikola Teslas free energy towers? Greed? Control?
@infinitelyexplosive41317 ай бұрын
Maybe because they don’t work?
@mrfish73576 ай бұрын
The propaganda of this makes it sound so wonderful but just know fisherman will not be able to fish near these structures, especially the commercial so the electric companies are going to take control of massive amounts of the ocean where fishermen used to go
@farmpunk_dan2 ай бұрын
If that’s the extent of the harm, this is a good thing. Fishing is not sustainable, and contributes more plastic pollution into the ocean than any other source.
@mrfish73572 ай бұрын
@@farmpunk_dan sorry you don't know what sustainable and what isn't and how things are regulated for the commercial fishing. I use no plastics in the ocean so how am I contributing to that. What do you think you're going to do with the leftover wind farms and parts that break down? Drop them into the ocean?
@jamesbrown-hl9if9 ай бұрын
Ah yes-more landscape and natural habitat improvements...
@steveslater78859 ай бұрын
@novapbs can you post more full-length content? -- it seems to be quite popular on your channel. ... No offense Caitlin... this video was great.
@karenfyhr23632 ай бұрын
It should have been done 40 years ago
@bushwacker53599 ай бұрын
No mention of the increased whale deaths. The sounds produced by this construction are causing whale pods to flee their habitat, causing them to get separated and disoriented in turn increasing beachings and boat strikes. These construction techniques need to be improved
@infinitelyexplosive41317 ай бұрын
Yes, they didn’t mention it because their job is to report facts, not fantasies
@bushwacker53597 ай бұрын
@@infinitelyexplosive4131 maybe you should do a little bit more research before spouting off
@infinitelyexplosive41317 ай бұрын
@@bushwacker5359 shockingly, reading random facebook posts does not actually constitute "research"
@bushwacker53597 ай бұрын
@@infinitelyexplosive4131 nice try. Never been on Facebook. But you go ahead and follow everything the MSM has to offer. They’ve never mislead anyone by omission of facts. Head meet sand.
@infinitelyexplosive41317 ай бұрын
@@bushwacker5359 cite _one_ research paper or state or federal investigation which found wind turbines causing whale deaths. I’ll wait.
@swapanghosh98679 ай бұрын
The commentator said we need all the sources of energy...no priority in that. Topography?
@douglascrawford25633 ай бұрын
We're deep-sixing offshore wind in NJ USA. The NJ 1100MW plan of 5000 1000' tall turbines are too destructive to the ocean bed and creatures especially such as clams, scallops and vitally important horseshoe crabs, ocean mammals, to ruining the view shed depressing seashore revenue and shore property values, to our small business commercial fishing industry, to our coastal military threat detection radar systems and radar guided missile systems, to air and sea navigation radar, to reducing the natural shore breeze creating hotter shore climate and reduced surf wave heights and unknown unintended consequences to the environment by changing the natural air flows. For the ones far out at sea, the HVDC converters employed to run the power cables to shore warms the ocean by cycling 8Million gallons of 90+degF water per day, working completely against climate change wiping out all sea life in that area. And all this for no material improvement to what is claimed to be necessary to help stop climate change. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management states in Environmental Impact Reports (EIS) "there will be no collective impact on global warming as a result of offshore wind projects" Vineyard Wind 1 Project Final EIS. The US 2050 86MW Plan of estimated 7200 turbines and 358 substations containing estimate 117M gallons of industrial fluids and 3.5M lbs of SF6 puts the coastal areas at risk of catastrophic pollution if any large number of them are destroyed by self-destruction, severe storms or acts of war. There is nothing good about offshore wind. Its a lowsy expensive source of energy pretending to be green. And fiscal estimates are looking like it could be a fraction of their investment to put a solar photovoltaic system plus battery storage on every suitable house in NJ and save everyone 60-70% of their monthly electric bill costs and that WILL last over 30 years (if not indefinitely at lower outputs) instead of committing huge fortunes to the offshore investment that will raise NJ electric rates several multiples per month. And that ain't the half of it. ProtectOurCoastNJ.com DefendBrigantineBeach.org SaveLBI.org
@VirginiaBronson9 ай бұрын
It's too little, too late. But maybe it'll help chip at the problem slowly
@AmericaProud9 ай бұрын
At what cost to the birds and fish?
@yogibarista28189 ай бұрын
@@AmericaProud yeah, we should do nothing, because the birds and fish prefer global warming.
@RealMTBAddict9 ай бұрын
What problem?
@rapiersister50329 ай бұрын
What happens to them when they reach the end of their life cycle? Look into it, people. Not saying don't use wind, but it's almost impossible to recycle the blades and they don't last long.
@BlanBonco9 ай бұрын
Still better than fossil fueled hell on earth
@solomonkane1029 ай бұрын
@@BlanBoncoWTH are you talking about?
@BlanBonco9 ай бұрын
@@solomonkane102 wet bulb situations killing people _ their own sweat can't cool them so they die. Sounds like hell to me. The metaphor for people filled with hubris and evil? The rich will just turn on the AC lol
@solomonkane1029 ай бұрын
@@BlanBonco you are insane.
@BlanBonco9 ай бұрын
@@solomonkane102 as insane as people hating on wind farms? We can only have big oil even if it will run out one day even if climate change isn't real? Not to mention oil spills killing the fishing industry on top of the environmental damages
@garyjones40014 ай бұрын
Its renewable except for replacement every 20 years very renewable
@mikem42403 ай бұрын
This trade off sucks
@williamstacey56439 ай бұрын
It worked so well for Europe, doubled their dependence on Russian oil and fired up their coal plants agian.
@NinjaXryho9 ай бұрын
Where's the data that it doubled their oil dependence on Russia? For the past 10 years EU importation of Russian crude oil has trended down, not up.
@DeadVegaInSpain8 ай бұрын
@@NinjaXryhowhere’s the data saying the oil use went down? I’m paying the electricity bill and my data is saying wind farms has jacked the bill through the roof and without oil these ocean fans wouldn’t produce Jack… Americans and there laptop knowledge.
@STEVEID19469 ай бұрын
Wind powered electricity is the most expensive form of generation. Build nuke plants.
@infinitelyexplosive41317 ай бұрын
You think nuclear is _cheaper?_
@ty2494 ай бұрын
that is the dumbest thing I have ever read
@farmpunk_dan2 ай бұрын
Just not true
@dertythegrowerАй бұрын
It leaks.. learn the reality, son.. FPL leak plant Miami... there, you just got schooled if you research it..
@williamhoffman43376 ай бұрын
Too expensive , to build , maintain and recycle. You will learn
@miriamcohen76579 ай бұрын
So what happens when the winds break them up and they blow all over the place? By the way, aren't these built in China?
@BlanBonco9 ай бұрын
What happens when wet bulb situations kill off large parts of the population?the rich have a party having turned the planet into hell
@RealMTBAddict9 ай бұрын
How dare you bring up facts?
@stephenharfield7815 ай бұрын
What a criminal waist of money!
@adrianb60739 ай бұрын
There’s no pleasing the environmentalists. 🤦♂️
@rindapelton58769 ай бұрын
A workable living planner??? You are kidding right. There is other ways for free energy, problem utilities wouldn’t be able to make money. Looking like you care makes you look foolish. Time to change!!!
@garyjones40014 ай бұрын
Thay are rubbish this is madness
@catherineshaw49379 ай бұрын
great, kill the fowl, and many other species.
@maggiereese10539 ай бұрын
Waste of money for a small amount of energy.
@riocox64459 ай бұрын
Global Warming: Quick give us all ur rights!
@That-Guy_9 ай бұрын
What rights are you loosing?
@riocox64459 ай бұрын
@@That-Guy_ YOU will own nothing and YOU will be happy; in your pod eating bug paste plugged into the metaverse. Note the WEF didn't say we...
@Keepskatin9 ай бұрын
Good, I support it and I don't like the unforgiving, dangerous oceans. Green Clean Energy🤌🏾