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World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk)
AmiMoJo writes: The world's first full-scale floating wind farm has started to take shape off the north-east coast of Scotland. The revolutionary technology will allow wind power to be harvested in waters too deep for the current conventional bottom-standing turbines. The manufacturer hopes to cash in on a boom in the technology, especially in Japan and the west coast of the U.S., where waters are deep. The tower, including the blades, stretches to 175m and weighs 11,500 tons. The price of energy from bottom-standing offshore wind farms has plummeted 32% since 2012, and is now four years ahead of the government's expected target. Another big price drop is expected, taking offshore wind to a much lower price than new nuclear power.
Godless heathens, everyone knows Jesus only wants coal fired power plants.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Some environmentalists will oppose this because of presumed bird mortality,
Not if they're rational.
and many slash dotters who are definitely not environmentalists will oppose this because it is an energy source they hate.
Hating an energy source isn't rational.
Reality Check. Environmentalist & non-environmentalist don't hate wind turbines in significant numbers.The anti-turbine mob are all nimbys worried about spoiling their views, and old-energy shills and their useful idiots.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
The blades can be turned side on, known as feathering, to prevent overspeed.
Used in aviation for the last 60 years.
Wind is allowed to be abandoned, with rusted towers left in place. Sometimes they are required to tear down to a "grey-field" standard, where the towers and above ground structures must be removed but the buried concrete anchors can remain.
You must live in a weird and unusually slack judiciary.
In other words, this part of your worries/opposition to wind power has nothing to do with a shortcoming in the industry but everything with a shortcoming in your legal system.
Additionally, land must be extremely cheap when the owners just let it lay fallow.
Where I live the ~25 y/o turbines, in the day the largest on shore wind farm in Europe, were removed after new rows of nearly 200 meter giants were put alongside them.
http://www.windparknoordoostpo...
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
If you have evidence that turbines disproportionately affect certain species, please cite it.
Otherwise, this chart shows that windows, communication towers, and even high-tension wires each kill thousands of times more birds annually, and those things are everywhere.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
you'd be lucky if you could find a spot in the North Sea that isn't windy
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
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