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World's Largest Wind Farm Gets Green Light

Posted by Hemos on from the a-windy-tomorrow dept.

cliffski writes "According to the BBC website the UK govt has just given the go ahead to two large offshore wind-farm projects. Between them the schemes would produce enough renewable electricity to power about one million households. The larger London Array project covers 144 sq miles (232 sq km) between Margate in Kent and Clacton, Essex and will be the world's biggest when it is completed. The £1.5bn scheme will have 341 turbines rising from the sea about 12 miles (20km) off the Kent and Essex coasts, as well as five offshore substations and four meteorological masts"

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  1. "renewable" energy? by syrinx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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  2. Re:144 mi^2 !=232 km^2 by smaddox · · Score: 5, Funny

    thats the Imperial-Metric square mile. Oft' confused with the strict Imperial square mile.

    It was invented solely for the purposes of this article, and has yet to reach widespread use.

  3. Re:What about our fine feathered friends? by randallman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scarecrow. Duh.

  4. Re:Such specific numbers, blah. by SnarfQuest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just enough to run my Delorian.

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