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Floating Wind Turbine Platform
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."
...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.
I, for one, welcome our new gird overlords.
Supplementing the gird is a commendable achievement.
Where are we keeping the real editors?
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Imagine a Beowulf cl... oh wait never mind.
...his name were Tom Berners Lee, someone might take him seriously...
I know, I know
How much will it cost to build though?
About 540 Energy and 60 Metal IIRC. A little more if you're CORE.
He must have been talking to VP Cheney and his Haliburton buddies....
But shouldn't we be working to eliminate those pesky migratory birds; especially since H5N1 is milling about. Mulching birds should be listed a feature, a feature that is part of the fight to stop the bird flu. It could be a War-on-Avian flu, to be waged at sea, stopping migration before it starts. All good now.
Yes, it's a shame that fringe reactionary groups have such a strong hold on our nation's energy policy. Why, just the other day ConocoPhilips was asking congress to allow them to use some of their tens of billions of recent windfall profits to research and provide clean, renewable energy. Wouldn't you know it, that huge Earth First! lobby managed to block any progress, just as they have for years and years!
I remember back in the 70s when Chevron's big solar arrays in Oklahoma were being continuously sabotaged by Greenpeace activists. The National Guard couldn't even hold off those lunatics long enough for Dick Cheney to finish cleaning the baby seals!
When will the insanity stop? When will the multinational megacorporations ever have a chance to be heard?
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Floating wind turbines are fine, but only until you can get your tidal generators up, and those become obsolete after underwater nuclear is built. They are quite fragile, however, so be sure to protect them with Scooters or floating Defenders, to ward off trigger-happy Scouts... ;)
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If it's for developing nations, why not take it where the wind blows and the birds are many. He could provide power and an unlimited supply of pre-diced stir fry at the same time!
Cheers
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
Now wait a minute. If it weren't for all those power lines to perch on the birds would have to keep flying until they dropped from exhaustion. :-)
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Nothing says bogus quite like changing units in mid-sentence.
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A hurricane is a big wind storm. This is a wind power generating platform. Hurricane == no more need for nuclear power this year. Suddenly, everyone wants a hurricane to come to their town.
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