Offshore wind: two major US projects scrapped - Reuters

[hunter]

5. Maybe people are starting to do the math.

These massive offshore wind power plants will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels, especially natural gas, and do nothing in the long run to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses humans eventually dump into the atmosphere.

It's increasingly obvious to me that these large scale wind developments are little more than greenwash for the natural gas industry. Often it's the same people investing in both -- they see hybrid natural gas / wind power systems as a "winning combination."

They're not. It's just another flavor of global warming denial.

I hope this is the beginning of the end for these offshore wind follies and I'm optimistic that similar projects off the coast of California will be abandoned.