Dominion Energy's new ship may hold the key to U.S. offshore wind energy

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  • Опубликовано: 23 июн 2024
  • In the mission to harness sustainable energy, the U.S. is behind when it comes to offshore wind energy. The Biden administration has set benchmarks to hit by 2030, yet the industry is lagging far behind. Brian Cheung reports on how one boat could carry the key to unlocking more green energy.
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Комментарии • 185

  • @gavinlenobel174
    @gavinlenobel174 Месяц назад +50

    It’s not first of its kind…. It’s first of its kind in the US. Welcome to Europe from decades ago….

    • @nueat6
      @nueat6 Месяц назад +7

      no one here cares about Europe.

    • @MM-sf3rl
      @MM-sf3rl Месяц назад

      I care about Europe and China who are making America look like a Dutch windmill. Thank you Joe Biden for moving the US forward.

    • @TheJensss
      @TheJensss Месяц назад +6

      ​@@nueat6correct, because US is the only country in the world 🤦

    • @nueat6
      @nueat6 Месяц назад +1

      @@TheJensss womp womp what happen you sad we don't care about other countries.
      some yall need to understand we only care what state were in not even the country unless we have people like you who feel we should care about other countries then its Murica all the way. So cry me a river. 😭😛😂

    • @davidanalyst671
      @davidanalyst671 Месяц назад +3

      The USA doesn't want to be like Europe. Europe was in a depression because they were dependent on Russian oil, and Electricity prices 10X'ed.

  • @ExceptionalLibra
    @ExceptionalLibra Месяц назад +29

    We know why America is lagging behind. It feels intentional by certain people.

    • @waltwenzel9549
      @waltwenzel9549 Месяц назад +3

      Like maybe big oil companies? Ya think?

    • @crazyyoutuberguy
      @crazyyoutuberguy Месяц назад +1

      America is lagging behind?, oh the metric system.. right

    • @carholic-sz3qv
      @carholic-sz3qv Месяц назад

      @@waltwenzel9549 nonsense!!!! to build those things they litteray are using oilfiel technology and oil, to build the standing/floating mats to laying the cables undersea to connect further on land and much more, the cable insulation in itself it full of plastics or petroleum products, there is oil literaly everywhere you look at.

  • @Deathbywill
    @Deathbywill Месяц назад +9

    Maybe get rid of the Jones act lol

    • @davidanalyst671
      @davidanalyst671 Месяц назад

      ruclips.net/video/k9-qPrOE_VM/видео.html

  • @lokesh303101
    @lokesh303101 Месяц назад +9

    Yes!

  • @Anubis-k2c
    @Anubis-k2c Месяц назад +9

    Thank you workers for hard working

  • @MM-sf3rl
    @MM-sf3rl Месяц назад +11

    In Anchorage, Alaska, a 250MW gas power plant took 3 years to construct. SunZia (New Mexico to AZ) wind turbine project will take 3 years for 3,500MW and provide transmission lines. I think this points to why 90%+ of new energy in the US is solar or wind.

    • @davidanalyst671
      @davidanalyst671 Месяц назад

      its the cost. natgas combined cycle, solar and ONSHORE wind all cost around the same LCOE. The only difference is that mother nature occastionally turns off the wind and solar

    • @WELVAS.
      @WELVAS. Месяц назад

      ​@@davidanalyst671Yes but that's why we have battery storage

  • @DCGreenZone
    @DCGreenZone Месяц назад +11

    Some day we will look back on all of this.

    • @Patrick-yh5yd
      @Patrick-yh5yd Месяц назад

      More cat 4 or 5 hurricanes? Have you seen what a tornado does to one of these?

    • @jasonschaeffer72
      @jasonschaeffer72 12 дней назад +1

      In the meantime. We'll be looking forward 😂

    • @DCGreenZone
      @DCGreenZone 12 дней назад

      @@jasonschaeffer72 One can only hope that the madness ends soon.

  • @Patrick-yh5yd
    @Patrick-yh5yd Месяц назад +1

    Each windmill should have a small high dock attached for fishermen to pay to be dropped off for 2 or 3 days for fishing. A tourist attraction.

  • @itaygothelf3952
    @itaygothelf3952 Месяц назад +1

    Great

  • @hotchango1507
    @hotchango1507 Месяц назад

    What I see is an improvement to my already great spear fishing grounds 😊😊

  • @db1418
    @db1418 Месяц назад +9

    They are turbines not wind mills, as they don't mill wheat using wind.

  • @joshuajuarez3471
    @joshuajuarez3471 Месяц назад

    The Pacific Osprey is a boat of same type that built the dantysk field outside Germany

  • @santaclaus0815
    @santaclaus0815 Месяц назад

    Apparently the ship builds the entire wind power plant. In terms of the work process and shipbuilding, some specialization would probably be better. For example, one ship for the foundation, setting up the mast and the generator and a separate ship that transports and assembles the blades.

    • @Patrick-yh5yd
      @Patrick-yh5yd Месяц назад

      Knowing Unions I bet he takes twice as long to build then planned.

  • @andrewroberts7428
    @andrewroberts7428 Месяц назад +26

    THIS is the green energy economy, right here, there is nearly limitless prosperity in building better, greener infrastructure, THANK YOU, president joe biden!!

    • @MM-sf3rl
      @MM-sf3rl Месяц назад +5

      💙🇺🇸Biden/Harris🇺🇸💙 272,000 new American jobs in May - Thanks Joe. 💙🇺🇸Biden/Harris🇺🇸💙

    • @jackred2362
      @jackred2362 Месяц назад +3

      This is classic Dominion greenwashing. Get a government subsidised green project, paid by taxpayer's money. While paying no/little taxes back. In the mean time, ramp up oil and gas pipelines.

    • @MM-sf3rl
      @MM-sf3rl Месяц назад

      @@jackred2362 Yes, in Alaska he green-lighted ConocoPhillips Willow project and Santo’s Pikka project. But, without some back scratching Lisa Markowski would not have voted for the IRA. I guess you can’t get off the heroin until you get some methadone.

    • @carholic-sz3qv
      @carholic-sz3qv Месяц назад

      everything possible with the technology of oil and oil.

    • @steveburke7675
      @steveburke7675 Месяц назад

      I'm sure the GOP will be doing everything to block it, because..........that's what they do.

  • @slim5816
    @slim5816 Месяц назад +1

    Germany has this for quite some time already. They make it look like an innovation

    • @steveburke7675
      @steveburke7675 Месяц назад

      Of course Germany had this first...a result of being dependent on Putin for energy.

    • @slim5816
      @slim5816 Месяц назад +1

      @@steveburke7675 respectfully you gotta be confusing something. The gas crisis thing happened only a few years ago.
      Germany had these ships since 2003.

    • @steveburke7675
      @steveburke7675 Месяц назад

      @@slim5816 I didn't mention the "gas crisis". I mentioned Germany being dependent upon Russia for energy. That's been the case for decades. N America supplies it's own energy.

  • @joshuajuarez3471
    @joshuajuarez3471 Месяц назад

    It’s the first US is building

  • @michaelanderson3096
    @michaelanderson3096 Месяц назад +5

    Solar energy @ batteries storage is the way to go.

    • @robertsmith5744
      @robertsmith5744 Месяц назад +2

      Stay with DC on most devices, fridge, lighting, TV etc.

    • @michaelanderson3096
      @michaelanderson3096 Месяц назад

      @@robertsmith5744 Use alternating current (AC) to charge vehicles.

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun Месяц назад +2

      BOTH you need all of it as manufacturing capacity is the limitation.

  • @SamuelGemette
    @SamuelGemette Месяц назад +11

    Go 🇺🇸 🎉

    • @benedibrava
      @benedibrava Месяц назад +1

      alternative energy means not go, but handicap

  • @foodiepamalama711
    @foodiepamalama711 Месяц назад +1

    The Jones act is inevitably pigeon hole the shipment of product. They need to refine it for sure

    • @davidanalyst671
      @davidanalyst671 Месяц назад

      The Jones act is the best ruclips.net/video/k9-qPrOE_VM/видео.html

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 Месяц назад

      We stopped subsidizing our shipyards in the 80s. That's arguably the bigger problem. Several other seafaring nations have something like the Jones Act on their books, but they heavily subsidize their shipyards so companies can actually afford their buy local. I'm not really a fan of subsidizing entire industries, but shipbuilding is one of the few things nations must subsidize.

  • @user-ch4ji5ux4s
    @user-ch4ji5ux4s Месяц назад

    It's called work in progress tell me went you don't have challenges when you build a huge project like you or build for the future of the country

  • @williamkeating6406
    @williamkeating6406 Месяц назад

    If this is the same Dominion company that makes the voting machines. We will be in good shape.

  • @rose415
    @rose415 Месяц назад +8

    What happens when trump ends all green energy

    • @MM-sf3rl
      @MM-sf3rl Месяц назад

      We fall further behind China.

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun Месяц назад

      Rolling BLACK OUTs. Is the literal technical outcome of ending green energy. It's too much of the grid to replace.

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun Месяц назад +7

      Rolling BLACKOUTs. That is the literal technical outcome if green energy was ended. It is too big a proportion of the US Grid Mix to replace.

    • @Heavilymoderated
      @Heavilymoderated Месяц назад +2

      I don’t know, but I’m out of here if he wins. Everything is taking way too long without him as it is.

  • @christheesfeld5677
    @christheesfeld5677 Месяц назад

    What's the cost benefit? Cost per MW per its lifetime?

    • @MM-sf3rl
      @MM-sf3rl Месяц назад +1

      In Anchorage, Alaska, a 250MW gas power plant took 3 years to construct. SunZia (New Mexico to AZ) will take 3 years for 3,500MW and provide transmission lines. I think this point to why 90%+ of new energy in the US is solar or wind.

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun Месяц назад +5

      ROI break even is just over several years, service life is 25 years. Companies are only doing this because giant wind turbines are very profitable because the sheer amount of energy they deliver.

    • @MM-sf3rl
      @MM-sf3rl Месяц назад +2

      @@Neojhun That’s sounds probable. I would think in 25 years changing them out will not be any hard than the original new construction and there should be an efficiency improvement.

    • @christheesfeld5677
      @christheesfeld5677 Месяц назад

      Thanks for the feedback

  • @user-ch4ji5ux4s
    @user-ch4ji5ux4s Месяц назад

    First Europe being doing this for a long time more their the usa .and went start to get a hand on this you see

  • @moonsanIVVVImoon
    @moonsanIVVVImoon Месяц назад

    🤨

  • @hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf
    @hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf Месяц назад

    FC

  • @markm6488
    @markm6488 Месяц назад

    Texas jobs 🏆

  • @danielmcinnes20
    @danielmcinnes20 Месяц назад +1

    👍👌🇨🇦

  • @greggreg2263
    @greggreg2263 Месяц назад +1

    I thought those big windmills were obsolete, and there was a new better design?

    • @MacDaddy8200
      @MacDaddy8200 Месяц назад +8

      Nope the new offshore mills are huge with almost 250m wingspan and produces 15-18 MW

    • @matt45540
      @matt45540 Месяц назад +3

      The larger the better for now, there's been a lot of innovations on rooftop which specializes in capturing the air pressure developed by buildings in the wind.

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun Месяц назад

      What a bunch of absurd nonsense. You have been brainwashed by BS. Ever since the 200ft class turbines were deployed over a decade ago. They proven to output and deliver a gigantic amount of electricity. No it's not a new design, it's actually aging. Don't fix what ain't broke.

  • @davidgrochmal6023
    @davidgrochmal6023 Месяц назад +12

    If mad man trump gets elected we can kiss all of this good by !!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @ritaawudey4451
      @ritaawudey4451 Месяц назад +1

      Keep living in hallucinations. Trump will win over a dementia Biden

  • @5thgen916
    @5thgen916 Месяц назад

    The US has many challenges Europe doesn't below the water. Every engineering option has less than ideal tradeoffs due to the unique subsea conditions. That is why there isn't a large list of developers.

    • @andrewroberts7428
      @andrewroberts7428 Месяц назад

      the us has more challenges than europe above the water, namely that we've got a rightwing, anti-science, fascist movement anchoring us to the bankrupt ideas of the past, and worse, trying to drag us back to them and undo the progress we've made. if we didn't have such a glut of ignorant, selfish rightwing morons we could have made progress on this issue decades ago.

  • @LevisTheWise
    @LevisTheWise Месяц назад

    Don't tell Trump, he will tax or cancel it - just like all renewable energy initiatives. Gas Money Is Big Money

  • @robertsmith5744
    @robertsmith5744 Месяц назад +1

    Offshore wind turbines should only pump sea water to spin the generators that are on shore, think.

    • @matt45540
      @matt45540 Месяц назад +4

      How would pumping sea water generate electricity? Wouldn't be better off using the wind to generate the electricity directly like we do now

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun Месяц назад +2

      That would have extremely poor efficiency of power transmission. To the point it won't even be commercially viable.

  • @koda3967
    @koda3967 Месяц назад +2

    2:07 🤔So they're putting these *Uber expensive* #MegaTurbines off the coasts of the #US in the places where y'all receive the most #HurricaneWeather? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    • @citizenzero6140
      @citizenzero6140 Месяц назад

      Windmills are toy generators susceptible to a multitude of issues.

    • @magaareinbredhillbillies
      @magaareinbredhillbillies Месяц назад

      they put oil wells in tornado alley.

    • @user-yu8eu1rb4o
      @user-yu8eu1rb4o Месяц назад +7

      There are thousands in the North Sea and the winds are hurricane strength.

    • @citizenzero6140
      @citizenzero6140 Месяц назад +1

      @@user-yu8eu1rb4o
      Theres a big difference between hurricane strength and an actual hurricane.

    • @matt45540
      @matt45540 Месяц назад +3

      When's the last time Virginia had any sort of major hurricane. They do get up that way but they're relatively weak by the time they get there.

  • @thomasporti7744
    @thomasporti7744 Месяц назад

    Lets see how this will be a disaster

  • @TH-yum
    @TH-yum Месяц назад +1

    Umm I think hurricanes are quite popular in that area. Build and destroy with little investment returns.

    • @matt45540
      @matt45540 Месяц назад +4

      Virginia? I live in Georgia and hurricanes aren't even coming down here. The Carolina coast sees some occasionally but they're generally weak by the time they get there

    • @TH-yum
      @TH-yum Месяц назад

      @@matt45540 I'm in central FL. GA gets them by far! I see it them make that northern swing up your state every year once they get near the FL straits.

    • @steveburke7675
      @steveburke7675 Месяц назад

      Oh wow! the engineers forgot about that!!! /s

  • @JJarvo801
    @JJarvo801 Месяц назад +2

    large wind is dumb and expensive, hurts local fishing comunitys. nuclear is cheeper and less impact

    • @cameronf3343
      @cameronf3343 Месяц назад +8

      Actually fish and marine life love offshore turbines and various European markets even farm seafood on turbines.

    • @histind
      @histind Месяц назад +4

      Wind expensive compared to nuclear, in what galaxy? Not the Milky Way.

    • @timtruett5184
      @timtruett5184 Месяц назад +5

      You're assertion about cost is bass ackwards.

    • @JJarvo801
      @JJarvo801 Месяц назад

      @@timtruett5184 And what's the lifespan and maintenance cost of these huge structures

    • @JJarvo801
      @JJarvo801 Месяц назад

      @cameronf3343 No they don't you ruin critical habitat by anchoring these things off shore. They become a navigation hazard for boats and they close off the fishing area for the locals. This is a big money Grab by big corporation there's better solutions. What's the lifespan of maintenance cost at each turbine?What do they do with the blades? they don't last that long. You should look up what happened to fishing.Communities after the wind turbines in Europe

  • @benedibrava
    @benedibrava Месяц назад +1

    alternative energy is causing pain
    nothing can replace oil

    • @MichaelDeHaven
      @MichaelDeHaven Месяц назад +8

      More energy sources is good for us all.

    • @benedibrava
      @benedibrava Месяц назад +1

      @@MichaelDeHaven more energy source is good? cool, but to try to replace oil, is playing with destruction, famine, pain...; but alternative energy is just money laundering

    • @MichaelDeHaven
      @MichaelDeHaven Месяц назад +2

      Realistically we're not "replacing" oil, or gas, anytime soon. It's more a matter of making sure more of our energy comes from renewables as our energy needs grow. But the US is up to about 20% of its energy from renewables. Not bad for such a new tech, especially with solar now cheaper than coal.
      Some fuels will go earlier like coal, but that industry hasn't been growing for a long time. I'd like to see nuclear form our base load for electricity. Gas and batteries can then meet the difference(usually peak demand) between nuclear and solar/wind. Oil will be needed for fertilizer and plastics for a long time to come. At least without some incredible breakthrough.

    • @midknight
      @midknight Месяц назад +7

      Nothing will replace oil. Cos we are gonna run out of it eventually. That’s why we need alternative energy sources.

    • @JLocke573
      @JLocke573 Месяц назад +4

      @@benedibrava When has an alternative energy source caused "destruction, famine, and pain"? Can you give me an example?

  • @DeathRainsz
    @DeathRainsz Месяц назад

    No it’s really not and we need to shut it down.

  • @dougby1328
    @dougby1328 Месяц назад +1

    Waste of us taxes money so after this build who's gonna take care of it ?? Steel don't mix well with sea salt water. Us taxes payer gonna be paying millions to keep up with the maintenance .

    • @macriggland6526
      @macriggland6526 Месяц назад +4

      Who is going to be doing maintenance? Men and women with maritime skills and very solid swimming backgrounds.
      In other words, people who I’m glad are getting paid a lot. Don’t care if it is wasteful.

    • @tsubadaikhan6332
      @tsubadaikhan6332 Месяц назад +10

      And here we were thinking Coal Power Plants were maintenance free. Where steel has to deal with hot fire and high pressure steam....

    • @steven4315
      @steven4315 Месяц назад +6

      So you're saying steel ships don't make any sense? Guess we should have stuck with wooden ships.

    • @matt45540
      @matt45540 Месяц назад +5

      It's being built by a power company and like any power generation project is being subsidized by the government. Would do the same thing for saying oil pipeline, or a peaker plant.

    • @steveburke7675
      @steveburke7675 Месяц назад

      You're very grumpy Doug...................and misinformed.

  • @ion951
    @ion951 Месяц назад +1

    Those turbines leak oil and it goes right into the ocean..

    • @magaareinbredhillbillies
      @magaareinbredhillbillies Месяц назад

      so do oil wells. had a big oil spill a few years ago.

    • @matthewkantar5583
      @matthewkantar5583 Месяц назад +10

      @ion951 This is one of the funnier tacks desperate concern trolls have taken. How does this purported leaking compare to say, the Exxon Valdez leak? Or Blue Water Horizon? 🙄🙄🙄

    • @andrewroberts7428
      @andrewroberts7428 Месяц назад +6

      @@matthewkantar5583 not to mention their claim is total bs

    • @matt45540
      @matt45540 Месяц назад +3

      Like we do with things on shore, there's a containment tank underneath. A lot of engines and power equipment come with a catch area designed to handle all of the fluids in the engine plus 10% like on large generators. We have the standards thanks to the EPA

  • @douglasengle2704
    @douglasengle2704 Месяц назад +1

    This is crazy! This offshore wind farm is incredibly expensive, is in a hurricane prone area that will rip apart wind turbines with a large storm, it will impact huge noise into the water disturbing fisheries with an expected wholesale price for electricity of over $0.075 per kWh which is over double the cost of off-peak wholesale electric power meaning it will have no market. It is expected to be a forced buy where residences will be forced to pay for it meaning fewer grocery dollars for them. All to enrich a few at great expense to people least able to afford it. Wind turbines don't produce dispatchable power. It has to be conditioned typically by expensive to run natural gas turbines. The reason for renewable energy is to save other fuels. Global warming has been dead at about 1°C since 1992 with no known cause as of 2024. Earth's saturated greenhouse effect from water vapor can't have its overall effect changed by other greenhouse gases. On average CO2 has 1/4 of 1% share in earth's greenhouse effect.

    • @matthewkantar5583
      @matthewkantar5583 Месяц назад +11

      @douglasengle2704 Amazing, every word of what you just said is wrong.

    • @JJarvo801
      @JJarvo801 Месяц назад

      Local wind is a better solution ruclips.net/video/y2hg6mxX76Y/видео.htmlsi=08QGLOhXlqs0irdi

    • @alt51801
      @alt51801 27 дней назад

      Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work harder.

  • @jakekisiel7399
    @jakekisiel7399 Месяц назад

    There goes all the whales 🐋

  • @benedibrava
    @benedibrava Месяц назад +1

    more money laundering

    • @timtruett5184
      @timtruett5184 Месяц назад +7

      More crazy talk

    • @benedibrava
      @benedibrava Месяц назад +1

      ​@@timtruett5184 the same people who tell you climate is getting bad, is the same ones taking your money and invest in wind turbine, solar panels, ev.... which would get destroyed if climate is bad, its like the same people who tell you ocean are rising, but take your money because they scary you with climate, to buy oceanfront homes. *humanity is full of idiots, you outsmart them again and again, they don't catch it, its like people who say biden is doing a good job, biden has no clue what job is*

    • @benedibrava
      @benedibrava Месяц назад +1

      @@timtruett5184 too many idiots in world to see the obvious

    • @benedibrava
      @benedibrava Месяц назад +1

      @@timtruett5184 *we can be producing more oil in USA then ever before, but if the demand is bigger than the supply, it means nothing, that's how you get high gas prices therefore inflation* Biden instead increase oil production to overcome the highest demand in history, *biden prohibited oil exploration offshore and in public lands, cancelled keystone pipeline, rejected oil from Russia like we are Ukraine even Ukraine still buying oil from Russia* created problems with Saudi by calling them murders...