Take A Look At A Ship Being Fabricated In Louisiana for Wind Farm Work
The BEC stands in opposition to the unreliable energy production systems being touted in articles such as this one from the AP
Associated Press writers Kevin McGill and Jennifer McDermott (along with photos by Ted Jackson) have given us a look at the construction of a vessel that will be put to use in maintaining the many wind farms sprouting up along the coasts of the United States.
HOUMA, La. (AP) — In Louisiana bayou country, where oil rig supply ships are as much a part of the waterside scenery as shrimp boats, a new kind of seagoing behemoth is taking shape that marks offshore wind power’s growing presence in the energy seascape.
Louisiana shipbuilding giant Edison Chouest Offshore is assembling the 260-foot-long Eco Edison in coastal Terrebonne Parish, along the Houma Navigation Canal. It’s being built for Ørsted, a Danish firm that builds and operates wind farms worldwide, and Eversource, a New England energy provider. When delivered next year, the ship will serve as floating housing for U.S. offshore wind technicians and a warehouse for their tools as they run and maintain wind farms in the Northeast.
Officials with the three companies gathered Tuesday under the bow of the unfinished vessel to mark construction progress and hail the role offshore oil industries are playing in the development of offshore wind generation. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, attended.
Articles such as these are intended to ease you into acceptance and support for an ersatz energy production system, and The BEC encourages you all to not fall for it.
Steve Scalise attended the event, and we encourage him and the Republican Party of Louisiana to abandon the “all of the above” energy approach we’ve heard from many well-intentioned members and leaders of the party.
All energy sources are not created equal, and all energy sources should not be viewed as equally beneficial to the people of Louisiana and the United States.
The energy trajectory can never leave oil and gas behind; the people of the world will always need it. And the production of electricity must derive from nuclear sources, not wind, solar, and batteries, which divert needed investment and instill a false sense of energy security while doing nothing beneficial to “save the planet.”
We do not need to “mix” the unreliable systems in with the reliable ones; that simply degrades the overall effort. “Renewables” will not “replace” oil and gas; they will not alleviate any dependence upon oil and gas, which offer humanity more than “only” energy: oil and gas provide possibilities and freedom to human beings. “Renewables” provide continual dependence and energy uncertainty.
Read/see the article here, and while it all looks impressive - that’s the goal, mind you - stay ever-aware that these are ersatz systems that solve nothing they’ll tell you they solve all the while distracting money and attention from where the real solution lies: in a robust national system of nuclear energy electricity production.
Take a look at Orsted here.
See other work from The BEC regarding the ersatz systems being offered as “solutions” to the climate:
