Excellent blog by James Sallee of @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social. about Trump's mind-boggling decision to buy out offshore wind leases. He looks at the numbers and concludes that Trump "just spent $3.9 billion of taxpayer dollars spent to shoot a corpse"
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Who Killed Offshore Wind?
A closer look at $3.9 billion in lease buyouts suggests they are bad policy but probably irrelevant to deployment Climate headlines often nudge me toward despair. Heat waves, wildfires, and melting…