An engineer looks at floating offshore wind

Whale killers looked at by an engineer, as opposed to a rent-seeker.
bear in mind that in all this 10 GW chatter, the entire global fleet as of now is 0.25 GW, a large part of which currently being shipped to Norway for maintenance after 5 years in service.

And here's how many cables ec are needed




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I wonder how the grid arrangement of the structures effects a whale's ability to navigate by sonar?

Hokie and Tug, it’s been answered, it is “harmless” to all marine life. So says “the science”.

And here's the financials for the Kincardine floating wind turbine farm

M UKP ukp/kWh
tax credit 6 0.04
subsidy 31 0.22
sales 13 0.09
income 50 0.35

finance 30 0.21
admin 5 0.03
running cost 46 0.32
expenses 81 0.56

net loss 31 0.22




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Greg Locock


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