The Real Reason America Has Turned Its Back On Wind Power Energy

Energy mega projects like offshore wind power fields have been booming lately but for some reason America has stopped building them. Is offshore wind power really the future and what is the real reason America has stopped build these wind farms? Today we explore the insane engineering and problems behind offshore wind power.

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[TheImpossibleBuild]

Are there any real solutions to America's green energy problem?

[dollarmn]

I love at the 9-minute mark when they say, "government funding". There is no such thing. It is taxpayer/citizen funded. Once people realize that government funds nothing without taking in the form of ever-increasing taxation then maybe the citizens will wake up. I doubt it though.

[apollomoon]

I’m No engineering genius, but if I wanted a swimming pool in my backyard, I’d dig the hole before I filled it with water 😂.

[raygale]

One major problem with wind and solar is they often make power when it's not needed, and fail to make power when it is needed. Hot still days and cold dark nights being two common events.

[rajeshrajan]

After watching the hard work that goes into creating and maintaining machines like this, I understand why my old man always said that the stock market is the closest man has gotten yet to alchemy. Creating stupendous amounts of money out of thin air. Humanity always wanted it easy

[joejoejoejoejoejoe]

To save you 10 minuets, it's because they haven't got the power distribution network.

[shattered]

The grids are close to maxed out and yet there is a push to transition to EVs and changing from natural gas heaters, water heaters, and stoves to electric versions. The grid needs to be upgraded first.

[hornet]

Basically the national infrastructure is badly need of repair and expansion: roads, bridges, utility systems, airports. Decades of neglect.

[kevinbyrne]

It's naïve to believe that this interconnection problem can solved with a check from the federal government. All of the new connections must be reviewed by state and local governments. Substations and control systems must be added. It's not like adding a few extension cords.

[Lexoka]

It's not that simple, you can't just say "let's throw money at the problem" to build more infrastructure. Wind turbines are intermittent, meaning their production doesn't follow demand, meaning you need to find some way to absorb the power they generate when it's not being consumed, and some way to compensate for their missing production when you need a lot of power but there's no wind. That's the main issue, and the main reason grid operators aren't investing more into connecting further turbines to their grids.

This is a fundamental technological problem, and it won't be solved overnight.

[DunnickFayuro]

The first "you will be shocked" almost made me stop watching. The second granted you a dislike and an interrupted watching. *Stop* telling me and your viewers how they will feel. That's a lack of respect.

[scruffy]

No doubt the electrical grid infrastructure needs rebuilding. . So the priority should be updating our grid.

[masaharumorimoto]

Way back in College in 2004 in Environmental 101 we would get into raging debates over wind, I was stanchly anti wind, still am, it's great for isolated places, and specific scenarios but overall it's bananas to even think let alone try and build these mega projects on the scale they want/are. I can't believe we are at this point.

[atillathehungry]

What your saying is: if things were very different, wind turbines would work really well.

[kholmar]

any story that starts out "the real reason" is going to be about somebody's political opinion

[keithclark]

Sanity must be infecting these companies.

[sunrae]

Real solutions for America's energy problem A natural gas combined cycle power plant's efficiency can reach upwards of 60% because it captures and uses the plant's hot exhaust gases to spin a secondary turbine, which generates more electricity.

[BRX]

The solution is NOT having the government cough up a wad of cash to fund improvements to the grid. The solution is to reduce the regulatory burdens on the power industry so that they can find effective, market-based solutions. As usual, government is the problem, not the solution.

[dzcav]

This video raises good points that I don't see in other news. One of the biggest problems with solar/wind is that it is inherently diffuse. The grid was designed to transfer power from large, point sources. Solar and wind produce a little bit here and a little bit there, requiring a much more costly, and humanly objectionable, grid. No one wants ugly high-voltage lines ruining their scenery and TV/radio reception, and causing problems with high-voltage fields in their house. And people don't want to pay a lot more for their electricity to fund all the extra transmission lines and transformers. Also, the intermittency of solar/wind require fossil fuel backup. (And don't say "big batteries" unless you have many hundreds of billions of dollars you want to donate to pay for them.) Germany had the highest electrical rates in Europe BEFORE the Ukraine war, due to its reliance on solar/wind.

[super_ficial]

I bought an electric lawnmower and found out the hard way that if I let my grass grow longer than three weeks then my mower can't handle it.