Trump Halts Wind Farm Near Completion -- Rhode Island Fights Back - Rhode Island PBS

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This week on Lively, how will Rhode Island push back after Trump puts a stop to an almost-finished wind farm? Moderator Jim Hummel unpacks the purported reasons and potential impacts with journalist and podcaster Bill Bartholomew and political contributor Don Roach. Are there national security concerns about Revolution Wind or is this part of a federal vendetta against blue states? - Aired on 08/28/2025.

[sprinkleeninow]

1. GO FOR IT, RHODE ISLAND!! nt

[NNadir]

2. I generally oppose the wind industry, but if this stuff is near completion, it is probably foolish to not...

...extract whatever marginal energy it can produce. The ecological damage has already been done.

[Mopar151]

3. How about adding cameras, sensors, etc to see the true impacts.

Does aquaculture make sense near the turbines?

[NNadir]

4. The damage is already done by the construction activity.

I don't know that having cameras would help anything. There is no baseline although I would imagine one could declare some other region suitably far away a control region.

Operationally there is likely to be other damage of course, leaking lubricants, leachates. The biggest one to my mind is the shedding of blade coatings, a well known phenomenon that accounts for the performance degradation that wind turbines display over their lifetimes, which on average, if one followed the Danish master register of wind turbines, is
less than 20 years. The Danish Energy Agency no longer provides this register probably because it showed just how crappy the wind industry, a major Danish industry, is.

I'm generally opposed to putting every square meter of the planet's surface, including the sea surface - or the sea floor that advocates of so called "renewable energy" want to mine for minerals to support their junk - to some kind of economic use to make money for this person or that person in the 1%.. I feel similarly about aquaculture.

My private battle is a losing one however.

From my perspective history will not forgive us nor should it.

[sprinkleeninow]

6. I DO understand your stick-to-it-iveness.

But, as you have mentioned, the project is almost completed. There's enuff other costly ridiculous 'orders' from Orange Krasnov and his entourage for this to be scrapped.

Sounds like I'm a fatalist, but this earth 'as it stands presently' will not be renewed while we're here. It suffers decay, corruption. Was not intended as such.

I miss my girl pupper real bad...

[sprinkleeninow]

5. I browsed thru your recent post regarding wind. Ty.