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US Plans Wind Farms Along Nearly the Entire U.S. Coastline

3 pointsby Bhilaiover 3 years ago

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missedthecueover 3 years ago
Reaching the 2050 climate targets are usually put in terms of increasing the share of wind and solar by such and such a percent every year until 2050. I wonder though how quickly we will use up all of the &quot;low-hanging fruit&quot; locations, leaving only very high maintenance cost areas or very low wind areas.<p>It might be much more difficult in future decades to get a good return on a given $1B wind investment in later years than it is now. This would considerably hamper our ability to hit the target.
HamburgerEmojiover 3 years ago
Any estimate how many birds and bats this would kill each year?