LibertyBell

Wow these guys are like the antivaxxers..... The slow death of Cape Wind, a wind farm planned for five miles off Cape Cod that drew the ire of the Kennedy and Koch families, taught wind developers that projects needed to be much farther offshore to avoid local opposition. But recent fights from New York to Norfolk show that even out-of-sight turbines can rouse local residents against a project. “It overrides any ability we have to protect our property,” said Michael DeVlieger, another Ocean City councilman. He said his constituents are worried about the disruption to their town, the potential use of eminent domain and even whether the power lines could affect their health. “I’ve got a guy with a pacemaker on 34th street who’s scared to death they’re going to put this thing in.”

Except there are really good reasons to reject fracking. In eastern PA, where my other house is, fracking is banned there too. It causes noise and light pollution, pollutes the water and reduces property values, not to mention the methane release it causes and the risk of earthquakes resulting from wastewater injection. It's banned in the entire Delaware Valley region too. But being worried about wind turbines makes zero sense when they are offshore, they cause none of those issues and might even weaken hurricanes as they approach......thats a win/win to me.

Do you have info on the New Jersey ones, because I thought that project had already started?

Why dont fishermen and locals try to block the oil leases given out in the Gulf of Mexico which clearly cause much more harm and there was a leak from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 that still hasn't been cleaned up, 17 years later!

No one cares about a cold November, we didn't have one last year either dude. November is a pretty meaningless month for cold and snow.

Meanwhile China is having problems with coal (GOOD) https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-coals-last-hurrah-comes-too-late-old-mining-towns-2021-11-11/ Back in 2019, government researchers were already debating whether production should be expanded and more coal power plants built in order to alleviate potential shortages over 2021-2025. But experts say this year's shortages prove China needs to accelerate its transition to renewables, and speed up reforms to allow electricity users to switch more easily to cleaner power sources and end their dependence on coal. "I'm puzzled as to why there is not a campaign-style push to ramp up renewable energy like we have seen with coal," said Alex Wang, co-director at UCLA's Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. "Coal reliance makes China vulnerable," he added. "It's an energy security problem."

there is such a thing as storage of energy you know? we can store solar and wind energy in chemical batteries to use later

it did until Munchkin got ahold of it.

they cant claim economic hardship because renewables are price competitive with fossil fuels and dont kill you or destroy the planet

we're building a huge wind farm offshore, I dont see anyone complaining about that it's 300 miles wide

Thorium dude, the answer is always Thorium

whats the least snowiest? neutral?

One can argue 95-96 was perfect November through April!

I wonder if everyone remembers last year at this time we had 5 straight days of 70+ and even upper 70s (November 8-12) it was a +5 November which is amazing. The only difference was we had a freeze on Halloween last year, so we had an Indian Summer in November.

There is nothing better than clear skies and low humidity. It can snow during actual winter, as long as it's nice and sunny the rest of the time.

Maybe we have a chance to hit 70 one more time, today. Think this is the last one for the year, Don?

One more chance to hit 70 today!

JFK and LGA? also got one for MPO, Don?

that will kill you

try pieced green peppers next time

this country isn't one nation, it's like 50 different nations. States like NY should and will ban coal products from WV and other fossil fuel states (should ban guns too....we have enough of a problem with them.)

guess what else is a sham....COP26. Over 500 fossil fuel lobbyists there, we weren't able to make headway against the tobacco cartels until we banned tobacco lobbyists from conferences.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-gift-of-endless-memory/ Endless memory....I wonder if this is a useful trait or will it actually cause more problems than its worth?

What you need to know - New wind and solar power projects produce cleaner and cheaper energy than new coal power plants, The Guardian and Bloomberg reports - Technology development in both solar and wind are part of what make them cost-effective sources, according to Ars Technica - There are also "positive externalities" - or social value to using solar and wind power like billions of dollars saved in health costs, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists

https://twitter.com/i/events/1453040298154606599 Renewable energy costs are already on par with fossil fuels - and only getting cheaper In 2015, when the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed, countries made commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming in this century to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), ideally 1.5C, compared to preindustrial levels, Reuters reports. One way to achieve that goal is to reduce energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by scaling up the use of renewable energy resources, such as solar and wind power instead of fossil fuels, such as coal or oil. Critics have argued the cost of developing and deploying these renewable energy sources is expensive, but research shows that renewable energy sources are cost-competitive with fossil fuels and are getting cheaper each year, as multiple news outlets and international organizations report. There are also other long-term, cost-saving benefits to implementing renewable energy sources, Vox report