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Big Blades Turn Out to Be a Big Bust – HotAir

For all the billions dumped into the offshore wind game, the companies playing seem to be folding their cards after blowing through the available funds and coming up way short.

It’s so peculiar how consistent the trend has been. It’s almost like someone should have noticed it a long time ago and maybe saved the taxpayer and the ocean itself the time, destruction, wasted effort, and pain it has all caused.

The latest casualty of cruel reality checks is none other than GE Vernova, manufacturer of the once-vaunted Halliade monster blades that would be the key to electrifying coastal areas from England to New England in the greenest of green carbon-free fashion.

The Vernova Halliade blades have had a rough run the past six months or so, if you’ll remember. There have been two failures off of the British coast in the much-ballyhooed Dogger Banks wind development. Supposedly, those were…

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