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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."
Gotta love when the 'environmentalists' find problems with a 'green' energy source.
... if we kill off the birds who are ultra-focused on their prey, and don't pay attention to their environment, wouldn't have leave a less crowded habitat for the non-stupid birds to thrive in? That would make the endangered species stronger in the long run.
But
(if we have creationist environmentalists, we can just tell 'em that it's part of a greater design, and it's beyond our understanding to try to make sense of it)
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
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These things are by senrendipitous coincidence sited in windy places and usually have oodles of ducting going to the land where, just as serendepitously there are usually large power stations if not mega-cities.
Coincidentally too Bloody Liar is pushing nuclear energy down our throats -or seems to be winding up for it. Maybe its a good thing he's having a bad time with his cabinet atm.
I gather Banana Man is having trouble in the trenches too. I doubt that will stop any move toward nuclear fuel over there though. (What with all the power being in the hands of oil companies anyway.) But you just don't know what them bloody Yanks get up to anymore.
Bunch of nutters.