Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper
by Theodores on Monday September 04, 2017 @02:35PM
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But what happens if you have a place like the North Sea surrounded by facilities for deploying oil rigs and associated infrastructure, for the oil to run out? There is considerable sunk cost in the infrastructure and with some subsidies to keep yards busy (as such things are needed for national security reasons) it all becomes a lot easier.
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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper
by olau on Monday September 04, 2017 @02:58PM
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What happens is that you get crazy plans like this:
http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-looking-into-building-north-s...
In a couple of decades, I think the North Sea is going have vast areas full of wind turbines.
Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper
by isostatic on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:27AM
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One of the only complaints about offshore wind is it "spoils the view". A 250m high turbine can be seen from about 30m away - dogger is twice that distance.
Current plans are for 5GW of production, that's about 15% of the UK's current electricity demand, and more than is produced by the UK's wind farms in total.
If successful I can't see anything stopping expansion to the initial planned 9GW, other than capital funding.