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Giant Floating Windmills To Launch Next Year
pacroon writes "StatoilHydro is building the world's first full-scale floating wind turbine, Hywind, and testing it over a two-year period offshore of Karmøy, Norway. The company is investing approximately $80 million. Planned startup is in the fall of 2009. The project combines existing technology in innovative ways. A 2.3-MW wind turbine is attached to the top of a so-called Spar-buoy, a solution familiar from production platforms and offshore loading buoys. A model 3 meters tall has already been tested successfully in a wave simulator. The goal of the pilot is to qualify the technology and reduce costs to a level that will mean that floating wind turbines can compete with other energy sources."
Oh yeah, those poor, poor environmentalists, they are treated so badly by the media.
And what about the whole "ban plastic bags" campaign also led by the enviros? The reason we have plastic bags now is because those same powerful environuts cried and whined that having paper bags would destroy the forests. So we switched to plastic. Now the envirofascists say plastic is bad for the climate, or whatever their favourite cause/animal of the day is, and tell us to go to paper bags. The evil media that hates you environuts so much never seem to remember it was your fault in the first place.
It's left-wing idiots like you that cause so many of the world's problems, and then blame everyone else for it. Thankfully the fascist green lobby is losing power now as the truth slowly comes out.