On Wednesday the Interior Department announced that it would pay the energy developer Invenergy $765 million not to develop three offshore wind farms. This is the third such payment by the Trump administration to undo offshore wind projects that have been years in the planning. Trump has so far committed $2.5 billion in taxpayer dollars to killing renewable energy projects.
Sounds wasteful. A state actually paying people so they won’t deliver electricity to other people.
As for why - I mostly agree, it’s about campaign finance. He’s been paid off by fossil fuel lobbyists. The price of helping him into the White House was a duty to fight windmills, so that’s what he does.
Meanwhile every sensible person, company and society looks for alternatives. Dependence on petrostates is bad in so many ways.
This was a interesting read. I didn’t even know that electrocaloric materials existed. :)
Having read the explanation of how it works, I think the biggest difficulty waiting for them on the curve is achieving considerable levels of power.
But they seem to firmly believe that they can get past an instrument cooler to a residential heat pump.