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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by silisili on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:57PM (#41759792)
You mentioned offshore wind, is offshore solar not a thing? Seems it'd be rather easy to float a farm of them...easier than floating a giant windmill, at least.
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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by pvaldes on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:06PM (#41759865)
China would find an excuse to attack anything put in "their" sea.
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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by huac on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:09PM (#41759876)
shouldn't there be more clouds over ocean, as that is where the clouds tend to form?
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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by metaphor on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:27PM (#41760023)
> Seems it'd be rather easy to float a farm of them

Geopolitical threats aside, I imagine floating a farm would be the least of challenges[1].

[1] https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/80/1/1520-04...

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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by gomerspiles on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:40PM (#41760119)
Geo location aside, putting things off shore is really a way to drive up cost such as maintenance like mad and it makes even less sense when you are working with large surfaces rather than something designed around having height and wind tolerance.
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