Engineering360: "Regulators OK Offshore Wind, but Say They Were Forced"

The customer base saddled with this folly should turn the tables on the Sierra Club and use some of their tactics by suing for unfair practices, harmful environmental effects including infrasound damage to fishes and other wildlife....

Dont know much about the ocean winds, but i can tell you all about the winds on Lake Erie as i fished years upon years.

At the shoreline there is an onshore wind that produces a 3' chop (wave), as you get out about a mile and a half, it is down by 1/2 and about 4-6 miles out there is zero waves, flat as a pancake. This is a normal day, and it usually the onshore shuts down as evening draws. All begins again starting as the sun comes up and warms the shoreline.

There are exceptions to the norm, when a front comes thru, but these turbines are shut down at winds above 20mph. I would have to believe that the people building these things would know this?

but several windmills were allowed in Lake Erie 8 miles out. Cant see shoreline when i am out this far so i would assume that they wont be seen which is why they were allowed. But they will not pay for themselves i can promise. So what is the incentive? is this to get a foot in the door? to then pave the way for more closer the shoreline where the prevailing winds blow? I would have to assume.

Does the ocean work in the same way? i would again, have to assume.

Windmills are expensive to maintain, once they break they are not repaired. Govt. pays for them to get installed but does not maintain them so no money is set aside for that. especially a repair out in the ocean or lake.