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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 (#15170189)
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.

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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by isostatic on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:27AM (#15173382)
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.

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