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monkeywaffles t1_j8vkmp2 wrote

Reply to comment by For_All_Humanity in Amazon puts $1.6m behind 'world-first' plan to harvest seaweed at offshore wind farm by For_All_Humanity

Or, pessimistically, it's a way to try to change public perception of unpopular windfarms that will displace local fishing jobs, under guise of being green, and letting large corporations make more claim to open waters or buffer zone around 'their' claim to keep folks out.

Now, I'm not saying it's bad or wrong to put up wind, I frankly don't know enough about it.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/offshore-wind-energy/fishing-community-impacts

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GreatBigJerk t1_j8z3djz wrote

I don't think offshore wind farms are unpopular. If anything, displacing fishermen is a good thing. Fishing is unsustainable at the current scale.

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monkeywaffles t1_j8zaugf wrote

I was just going off that NOAA page I linked that says that lists several concerns with them. You can read them yourself.

I've also seen some wild claims being thrown around that they can kill or confuse whales, that NOAA said there was no evidence yet for, just a lotta dead whales for unknown reasons. Almost certainly bullshit (claims of it being wind related), but to claim there's nobody bringing up complaints is odd.

Also, while you may not think fishing sustainable, the coastal towns that rely on fishing may still feel that disruption of their way of life and loss of jobs to be a problem, and even destruction of coal mining towns and the fallout there is used politically.

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