US Completes First Offshore Windfarm
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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.
http://blog.cleanenergy.org/files/2012/05/offshore-wind-energy-2.jpg
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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.
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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:
@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?
Oh heavens, that's an after thought to protect all my cool businesses
I'd have a metal smelting furnace or 4
Water desalination plant to produce bottled water and locally sourced organic west coast hipster approved sea salt
.... the options are endless!
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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:
@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?
Enormous capacitor bank to feed my home brewed RailGun that would only ever be used for good I totally promise
Oh goodness, the mind boggles with the options....
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In recent new TPB uses drones off-shore to keep operations afloat, interrupts off-shore wind mills...
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@DustinB3403 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
In recent new TPB uses drones off-shore to keep operations afloat, interrupts off-shore wind mills...
You had me confused with PTB lol
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@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@DustinB3403 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
In recent new TPB uses drones off-shore to keep operations afloat, interrupts off-shore wind mills...
You had me confused with PTB lol
haha yeah I noticed I mistyped it...
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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:
@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?
Enormous capacitor bank to feed my home brewed RailGun that would only ever be used for good I totally promise
Oh goodness, the mind boggles with the options....
I'd use the proceeds to start Canada's only firearms ammunition manufacturing company, smelting the lead bars myself from recycled car batteries.
Oh, also, recycling plastics (HUGELY energy intensive, could easily take all 500KW on it's own)
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@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:
@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:
@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?
Enormous capacitor bank to feed my home brewed RailGun that would only ever be used for good I totally promise
Oh goodness, the mind boggles with the options....
I'd use the proceeds to start Canada's only firearms ammunition manufacturing company
You guys have Moose and bears yet you don't produce ammo? What the heck do you do to hunt then, strangle the animals.....
I mean I know Canadians can be tough, but dang...
