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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. Originally meant to be a white light by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The light is not green, it was originally meant to be a white light
    But the green cloud coming from all the produced wind obscured it.

    --
    liqbase :: faster than paper
    1. Re:Originally meant to be a white light by duguk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I live in Clacton and can confirm our clouds are NOT green! :D

      WooO! My hometown mentioned on /.

      Expect this'll annoy a lot of the old people living around here but I'm all for it.

      DugUK

  2. Re:"renewable" energy? by Bryansix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice Simpson's quote!