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UK Wants Huge Expansion In Offshore Wind Power

Posted by kdawson on from the think-of-the-birds dept.

OriginalArlen writes "The UK government has announced an ambitious plan to expand the existing offshore wind turbine farms, which are already extensive, to an estimated 7,000 units — two per mile of coastline — enough to generate 20% of the UK's power needs by 2020. The newly green-friendly Conservative opposition party is also backing the scheme. Wonder what they'll make of it in Oregon..."

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  1. They also want you to pay attention to the topic by nunyadambinness · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If we halved our oil usage, we could nearly be self sufficient! We could tell the Middle East to go fuck off and work on re-newable sources to use in place of oil.


    FANTASTIC!

    Get back to me when you realize that's not what we're discussing here and you're not smart enough to realize it.