World's First Floating Windfarm To Take Shape Off Coast of Scotland (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The world's first floating windfarm has taken to the seas in a sign that a technology once confined to research and development drawing boards is finally ready to unlock expanses of ocean for generating renewable power. After two turbines were floated this week, five now bob gently in the deep waters of a fjord on the western coast of Norway ready to be tugged across the North Sea to their final destination off north-east Scotland. The ~$256 million Hywind project is unusual not just because of the pioneering technology involved, which uses a 78-meter-tall underwater ballast and three mooring lines that will be attached to the seabed to keep the turbines upright. It is also notable because the developer is not a renewable energy firm but Norway's Statoil, which is looking to diversify away from carbon-based fuels.

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Re:sunk costs

[dunkelfalke]

You are a dumbass if you think that nuclear weapons would be used as a retaliation strike for sinking a wind turbine platform. Not only weapons of mass destruction are ultima ratio, but given the proximity to the British isles they will receive a substantial amount of their own fallout and it will also poison their fish stocks.