SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Floating wind turbines for offshore use are seen by many as embodying the future of the sector: they circumvent the problem of unsuitable seabeds and may even cost less than grounded alternatives. A consortium working under the FLOATGEN banner is looking for a share of the pie with the first-ever floating wind turbine to be set-up in the Atlantic close to the French coast.
FLOATGEN is looking to pioneer the expected burgeoning of offshore floating wind farms in European waters. To do so, it will set up a 2 MW turbine in the Atlantic Ocean, at the SEM-REV test site located 12 nautical miles from the city of Le Croisic. The seven-strong consortium hopes that this groundbreaking set-up—on a site which features an electrical substation connected to the national grid—will demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of floating-wind turbines and enable their development in windy and deep waters that are currently not commercially viable.
The demonstrator is using a cost-efficient, ring-shaped floating platform patented by Ideol. It boasts novel hydrodynamic properties that, according to its manufacturer, 'make its performance exceptional compared to other floating platforms.'
How long before Brexit Britain seizes the turbines and anchors them off Jersey?
[Editor's Note: Le Croisic is a commune and not a city. The nearest city is Nantes.]
(Score: 2, Troll) by edIII on Tuesday November 29 2016, @09:56PM
A President-elect acting like a corrupt fucking child talking to foreign heads of state for personal business matters regarding his well known opposition to both wind farms and climate "hooey"? It's going to be parked outside of New Jersey and his hotels?
If I'm piling on anything, Trump is helping through his corrupt and bombastic actions. It's not like it's a stretch or anything, or that I made his opposition up.
How do you know I was silent in 2006, or that this is political in nature at all? Not to mention, I'm not on anybody's side, but on the side of my principles, wherever they are to be found. Every media article I've heard about wind farm opposition in the last few years has been surrounding the child emperor Trump, not Kennedy's. I'll call out both families, thank you very much, and thank you for the information.
Trump hates both offshore wind farms, and climate change, and yet I'm piling on hate? Seriously? All I've pointed out is how Trump rolls. Truth pisses off people I see :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.