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Floating Wind Turbine Platform

Posted by samzenpus on from the dust-and-energy-in-the-wind dept.

Sterling D. Allan writes "Inventor Tom Lee is nearly ready to strike a deal to install a flotilla of offshore wind turbines, combined with hydrogen-generating capability and battery storage, which he says will enable them to have the consistency needed to be a primary grid energy provider, and not just supplemental to the gird. The floating platform enables them to take the turbines to where the wind blows and birds are few, and people even fewer. His objective in commencing this project 12 years ago was to come up with a power solution for developing nations."

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  1. Enough already. by sithkhan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    C'mon - nuclear energy is past due in our country. There are two power sources on this planet not dependent upon the sun: geothermal and nuclear. America needs more nuclear plants; hell, we needed them twenty years ago. Stop throwing money into ventures that are not going to produce the dividens, and start putting money in the nuclear power plants. And please save the FUD about nuclear catastrophes/Chernobyl for someone else, or for another thread. It makes you sound like a fundamentalist*. *gasp* *Being a fundamentalist, that was the worst insult I could come up with. Nothing pisses off a liberal more than being called a fundy. hahahah ... I am t3h w1nn4h!!
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  2. Re:This is great until the next Cat 4 Hurricane.. by dangitman · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This is great until the next Cat 4 Hurricane, then the whole system goes to hell.

    Sorry, I don't normally get this venomous, but you are being fucking retarded. What's your problem - do you have terror-fear on the brain? Sucked in by the New Orleans sensationalism that hurricanes are going to spring up everywhere and eat our children?

    Seriously, what the fuck? Is your mind programmed by the tabloid media? I guess if this had happened during the Superbowl, you would be asking "But will this be safe from Janet Jackson's nipples?"

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  3. Re:Developing Nations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You start by not mentioning that France and Japan do it.

    Why can't you admit you're not #1? Spending all your money on the military doesn't mean your not a pack of fat fuck, yokel religious crazies which a bad ego problem.