Whereas the onshore wind ‘industry’ is touched with an insanity all its own, taking these things offshore is positively bonkers. The massive cost of construction and routine maintenance skyrockets when these things get speared into the ocean floor, left to corrode in a brutal marine environment.
The inherent chaos involved with delivering electricity entirely dependent on the vagaries of the weather, doesn’t improve, either.
Sailors have been cursing calm weather since they first set to sea. Offshore wind, just like its onshore cousin, critically depends upon an endless sea of subsidies.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
The 47th President of the United States doesn’t just harbour rancour towards the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Donald Trump has completely flipped their game, as Francis Menton details in this post.
Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind
Manhattan Contrarian
Francis Menton
10 May 2026
Paul Homewood provides a snapshot of the insane, crippling and mounting cost of Britain’s delusional efforts to rely on breezes for power.
Cost of Renewables To Hit £40bn in 2030
Not a Lot of People Know That
Paul Homewood
29 May 2026
The team from Jo Nova report on Germany’s self-inflicted energy disaster, where it continues to spear thousands of these things across Deutschland, without adding so much as a megawatt to the grid. Something like pushing on string.
The Wind Power Puzzle (add more wind turbines and get the same output)
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
4 June 2026
David Wojick details the wind industry’s mounting carcass count across Wyoming, where a 200 mile long stretch of these things is slicing and dicing thousands of endangered apex avian predators with impunity
Wyoming Golden Eagles should be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act
CFACT
David Wojick
2 June 2026
Richard Bellington provides a helpful contrast between the inherent safety of nuclear power generation and the mortal risk becomes whenever giant lithium-ion battery systems burst into toxic fireballs that burn for days, and firefighters can’t extinguish.
Would You Rather Live Near A Battery Energy Storage System or a Nuclear Plant?
Watts Up With That?
Richard Bellington
1 June 2026
And round out with this Swedish study that shows that as these things increase in size from massive to gargantuan, so does the scale of the acoustic misery that they reign on neighbours unfortunate enough to have them speared in their backyards.
Efficient finite difference modeling of infrasound propagation in realistic 3D domains: Validation with wind turbine measurements
Applied Accoustics
Mattsson, Ken; Eriksson, Gustav; Persson, Leif; Chilo, José; and Tatar, Kourosh
5 February 2026
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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