US Completes First Offshore Windfarm
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@Brains said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@Brains said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
Generators begin to spin in November
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/the-unlimited-power-of-ocean-winds.html
Now that is how you harness wind power! Geez, up here in the northwest in USA it gets windy on the open farm lands but that's nothing compared to the ocean winds. They should put up generators in Florida. When a hurricane rolls through they'd be super charged if they didn't get totally destroyed.
Guaranteed that in FL, some crackhead would try to steal the wind turbines to sell as scrap metal for crack money. Couldn't be much tougher than ripping copper pipes out of a wall, right?
@RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
Generators begin to spin in November
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/the-unlimited-power-of-ocean-winds.html
Now that is how you harness wind power! Geez, up here in the northwest in USA it gets windy on the open farm lands but that's nothing compared to the ocean winds. They should put up generators in Florida. When a hurricane rolls through they'd be super charged if they didn't get totally destroyed.
Guaranteed that in FL, some crackhead would try to steal the wind turbines to sell as scrap metal for crack money. Couldn't be much tougher than ripping copper pipes out of a wall, right?
Crackheads with ocean going vessels and massive wreckage systems? This are out to sea
You underestimate the resourcefulness of a broke crackhead.
So true. We had some in Memphis that were stealing copper off of live power lines. I still feel bad for the people who had their entire house destroyed by crack heads breaking the drywall and stealing the copper power lines. Thank goodness scrap prices have gone down, so its not nearly as bad anymore
Accessing landbased power lines and going offshore are two completely different ball games.
true, they would need some kind of multi crack head human bridge to cover that much water. CRACK HEADS UNITE! FORM OF.... BRIDGE!
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Now if anybody tries to spin up their own wind powered generators for home, they'll be taxed on it, like the folks in Wyoming! [http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-wyoming-wind-tax-snap-story.html ... unsure if that article is satire or not]
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All these "green" solutions end up being really great, but only in a few select places (an offshore island in this case.) What we really need are better ways to transfer generated power over long distances. We currently average a 50% loss before the power even gets to your home/business. Most counties in the US have generator plants around somewhere.
Photovoltaic suddenly becomes absolutely amazing if you can just transfer the power generated over intercontinental distances instead of a few hundred miles without drastic losses.
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So we go from uglying up the countryside to uglying up the oceans
I know it's been a LONG time since I did any reading on wind turbines, I take it the manufacturing/installation/maintenance costs have actually made them cost effective compared to a decade plus ago.
I heard about a wind farm somewhere in Cali that was left derelict because the cost of maintenance including batteries cost more than the electricity was worth, a lot more.
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@Dashrender said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
So we go from uglying up the countryside to uglying up the oceans
I know it's been a LONG time since I did any reading on wind turbines, I take it the manufacturing/installation/maintenance costs have actually made them cost effective compared to a decade plus ago.
I heard about a wind farm somewhere in Cali that was left derelict because the cost of maintenance including batteries cost more than the electricity was worth, a lot more.
The windfarms up here don't have batteries and are really, from what I have read, inexpensive to maintain. Much cheaper then the maintenance on a Coal or Nat Gas plant. Granted they produce much less energy.
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@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@Brains said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@Brains said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
Generators begin to spin in November
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/the-unlimited-power-of-ocean-winds.html
Now that is how you harness wind power! Geez, up here in the northwest in USA it gets windy on the open farm lands but that's nothing compared to the ocean winds. They should put up generators in Florida. When a hurricane rolls through they'd be super charged if they didn't get totally destroyed.
Guaranteed that in FL, some crackhead would try to steal the wind turbines to sell as scrap metal for crack money. Couldn't be much tougher than ripping copper pipes out of a wall, right?
@RojoLoco said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@scottalanmiller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
Generators begin to spin in November
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/the-unlimited-power-of-ocean-winds.html
Now that is how you harness wind power! Geez, up here in the northwest in USA it gets windy on the open farm lands but that's nothing compared to the ocean winds. They should put up generators in Florida. When a hurricane rolls through they'd be super charged if they didn't get totally destroyed.
Guaranteed that in FL, some crackhead would try to steal the wind turbines to sell as scrap metal for crack money. Couldn't be much tougher than ripping copper pipes out of a wall, right?
Crackheads with ocean going vessels and massive wreckage systems? This are out to sea
You underestimate the resourcefulness of a broke crackhead.
So true. We had some in Memphis that were stealing copper off of live power lines. I still feel bad for the people who had their entire house destroyed by crack heads breaking the drywall and stealing the copper power lines. Thank goodness scrap prices have gone down, so its not nearly as bad anymore
Accessing landbased power lines and going offshore are two completely different ball games.
true, they would need some kind of multi crack head human bridge to cover that much water. CRACK HEADS UNITE! FORM OF.... BRIDGE!
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@coliver said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@Dashrender said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
So we go from uglying up the countryside to uglying up the oceans
I know it's been a LONG time since I did any reading on wind turbines, I take it the manufacturing/installation/maintenance costs have actually made them cost effective compared to a decade plus ago.
I heard about a wind farm somewhere in Cali that was left derelict because the cost of maintenance including batteries cost more than the electricity was worth, a lot more.
The windfarms up here don't have batteries and are really, from what I have read, inexpensive to maintain. Much cheaper then the maintenance on a Coal or Nat Gas plant. Granted they produce much less energy.
Yeah, once in, they require lube and break pad changes is about it.
I honestly couldn't believe how many of those gigantic windmills they've put up in areas that don't get a constant wind. In a constant wind they're great, without a constant wind they're a plague. They actually use electricity from the grid in order to get started. I'll give you one guess how well the work in Ohio away from the lake (on the shore of Lake Erie they're really great.)
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You do not need an island to do this. That is the beauty of it.
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P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.
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@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.
If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.
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@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.
If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.
I looked into geo-thermal for my house - yeah $25-35K to dig a well, it would take decades to pay off, and with the time value of money, totally not worth it.
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@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.
If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.
I too would like my own nuclear reactor... I solemnly swear that I will do very little evil with it....
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@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
You do not need an island to do this. That is the beauty of it.
Yeah I can see the drug attics that @RojoLoco was talking about, over on the right... though he's headed in the wrong direction. Like he passed out and just sailed on by.
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@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.
If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.
I too would like my own nuclear reactor... I solemnly swear that I will do very little evil with it....
Good luck producing any fissionable materials with either of those. Physics protecting us from @MattSpeller.
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If you look really close @RojoLoco...
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@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.
If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.
I too would like my own nuclear reactor... I solemnly swear that I will do very little evil with it....
Good luck producing any fissionable materials with either of those. Physics protecting us from @MattSpeller.
Pfffft I can do tons of fun stuff if you give me half a megawatt to play with. Don't need fissionables for what I have in mind
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@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.
If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.
I too would like my own nuclear reactor... I solemnly swear that I will do very little evil with it....
Good luck producing any fissionable materials with either of those. Physics protecting us from @MattSpeller.
Pfffft I can do tons of fun stuff if you give me half a megawatt to play with
Death ray?
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@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.
If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.
I too would like my own nuclear reactor... I solemnly swear that I will do very little evil with it....
Good luck producing any fissionable materials with either of those. Physics protecting us from @MattSpeller.
Pfffft I can do tons of fun stuff if you give me half a megawatt to play with. Don't need fissionables for what I have in mind
Half a megawatt? You're a real innovator then. I need at least 1.21 gigawatts to do anything spectacular.
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We just passed the solar trucks on the corner installing solar on my neighbour's house.
