Sam Kanner

floating offshore wind

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

Could we have an entire decade instead? Cool, thanks

https://t.co/Q59Vf4EaLn

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me get this straight.

The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality.

Everything was above board.

Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded. 

So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.” 

He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it.

This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness.

Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come.

None of this is America First.
https://t.co/MByTMTp6K1

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@ramez Cool. And also automated panel manufacturing is the norm in most advanced yards. Don’t even get me started on the large diameter stuff.

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@ramez @Jordan_W_Taylor @cremieuxrecueil Would love to see The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for all of our energy sources. I have quite a few bullet points in mind for solar, nuclear, CCGTs, geothermal

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@ramez I’m so curious where my inference requests go. I’ve tried asking ChatGPT but it won’t divulge! Reno? It definitely feels like it’s going to Virginia and back..

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@ericschmidt 🙋‍♂️we’re working on something similar. Just on Earth.

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@nickvanosdol Agree with 1,3 and 4, but shouldn’t solar suffer from these ills as well?.
The onshore turbines, comprising the bulk of wind deployment, have been around for decades and have low O&M. The GE1.5 is a workhorse. Would also throw nimbyism into #4 as well.

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@nickvanosdol Why is that you think?

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@FracSlap Guess which form of energy is cheaper than any of the ones you listed? (LCOE, not CAPEX)

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@duncancampbell @stripe @ScaleMicrogrids @paces_ai Isn’t onshore wind cheaper than solar per kWh, not per kW?

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@JGrybowski Jobs jobs jobs

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@JesseJenkins @Eavor @fervoenergy Additionally/alternatively: many of those countries have huge (deep water) offshore wind potential

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@ACORE @BOEM Come visit our tests later this year. The Aikido One will be the largest floating wind platform built in the US!

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@drvolts @offshorewindca Link to the pod?

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@thegarrettscott @WizLikeWizard Nacelles, too

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@ayanaeliza @oceanpanel Love this image! Where is it from?

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@JesseJenkins Could be a great place to assemble floating platforms too!

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@JigarShahDC

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@reNEWS_ We need a new picture!! This is too old

[Sam Kanner @samkanner]

@ramez Not so sure about the towers. Would require a new facility (yes could be new spiral welding techniques) per farm. Capex for a new facility on the order of 300M, would ruin economics, right?.
Otherwise you are seam welding (and coating!) the two halves of the tower on site?