{"id":60293,"date":"2021-04-14T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=60293"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:34:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:34:26","slug":"green-new-deal-takes-a-plunge-as-lift-boat-sinks-in-the-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=60293","title":{"rendered":"GREEN NEW DEAL TAKES A &#8220;PLUNGE&#8221; as Lift Boat Sinks in the Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lift Boats are key to deployment of off-shore wind farms.<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSubmitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n<p>The lift boat probably had all three stilts elevated more than 40 feet above deck when it capsized.<\/p>\n<p>It appears this necessary configuration would make it extremely unstable even in moderate seas.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at the following frame capture from US Coast Guard video you can see another LB on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-60294\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0-2-1-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0-2-1-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0-2-1-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0-2-1-768x514.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0-2-1-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0-2-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockislandtimes.com\/article\/unique-boats-coming-block-island\/45747\">https:\/\/www.blockislandtimes.com\/article\/unique-boats-coming-block-island\/45747<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lift Boats are key to deployment of off-shore wind farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}