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For context, it looks like there are only 32 wind turbine installation vessels in the world as of early 2021, and the first Jones Act-compliant wind turbine ins
by maxwell 4y ago
For context, it looks like there are only 32 wind turbine installation vessels in the world as of early 2021, and the first Jones Act-compliant wind turbine installation vessel is currently being built: https://www.theverge.com/22296979/us-offshore-ships-wind-boom-installation-vessels https://www.theverge.com/22296979/us-offshore-ships-wind-boo...
Instead of taking on national security + environmental pollution risks and further empowering foreign industry by repealing the Jones Act, we should invest in U.S. shipyards and continue to investigate assembling wind turbines at port and bringing out to sea mostly intact: https://crew.udel.edu/industrializing-offshore-wind-power-generation https://crew.udel.edu/industrializing-offshore-wind-power-ge...