Richard Cronin

The foundations for these beasts are enormous. They use monopiles, also called coffer dams, perhaps 34 ft in diameter. Sheet piling is driven edge to edge, the interior is then dredged out and filled with concrete, extending perhaps 100 ft or more beneath the ocean floor.

Coffer dams are only suitable for sandy loose soils. Entirely unsuitable for a rocky bottom or hard shelves.

Acoustic surveys are used to map the ocean floor for siting a wind farm. These acoustic signals overlap with low frequency whale communications.

Whale calves are curious and adventuresome. They will venture over to observe a fishing trawler or big freighter cruising along the U.S. East Coast. This is typical whale behavior since the days of the Titanic.

The calves will stray from the pod for bit but moms will call them back if they wander too far.

The low frequency acoustic surveys for wind farms are the new variable in the behavior of whale calves.

With the flood of new low frequencies, the calves cannot hear mom’s calling. The calves get confused and wander off, flounder into the shallows, get beached, tide goes out and the calves die.

This exactly what has been observed off the coast of New Jersey.

If Lord forbid, the full wind farm went into actual operation, the low vibrations of the rotating blades would scatter the whales from their migratory path and feeding grounds. The endangered Right Whale, numbering approx. 350 in the wild, would go extinct.

The prominent wind farm constructor is Orsted, 50 % owned by the Danish govt. Orsted funds bogus papers touting the economics and benefits of wind farms. Orsted schmoozes with politicians and "green energy” idiots.

By my lights, we should sue Orsted and the Danish govt. for the environmental damage they are already visiting upon the U.S.

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