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First Floating Wind Turbine Buoyed Off Norway
MonkeyClicker writes to tell us that the world's first large-scale floating turbine has been installed off the coast of Norway. A combined effort between Siemens and StatoiHydro, this marks the first foray into deeper waters due to restrictions in place that require offshore turbines to be attached to the sea bed. "The turbine in Norway will be 7.4 miles offshore where the water is 721 feet deep. It will be utility-size turbine, with a hub height of about 100 feet, capable of generating 2.3 megawatts of electricity. To address the conditions of the deep sea, the turbine will have a specially designed control system that will seek to dampen the motion from waves."
Politicians think that the slice of the cake that they will be left with after the profits ...
We also have war to blame. Cultures and nations at war attempt to out-breed each other in order to produce more soldiers and laborers. The cultures that reproduce the most stamp out the others, and thus we evolve, becoming cultured to reproduce and exponentially more numerous until we stamp out all other life on the planet.
Hopefully someone puts the brakes on human reproduction before it goes that far. We've come a long way in the past couple of centuries, even though we grow more numerous; condoms are a good start.
For a real solution to population growth, check out VHEMT.org -- their argument is compelling.