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>however they could be moved out of the way of the hurricane and moved back afterwards. This is fairly impractical. It is one thing for an individual moored st
by cr1895 10y ago
>however they could be moved out of the way of the hurricane and moved back afterwards.
This is fairly impractical. It is one thing for an individual moored structure to be moved from the path of a hurricane (e.g. a moored semisubmersible, as is done in the Gulf of Mexico), but an array of dozens of unwieldly floating wind turbines is something else entirely. Removing each would require several vessels and several hours for hook-up and seabed disconnect(once removal vessels are on site, which could take quite some time). Then they'd have to be towed slowly to safe waters, and somehow moored again or towed around continuously.
- masklinn 10y ago> an array of dozens of unwieldly floating wind turbines What wind turbines? The article is about actual farms on barges/floating platforms, not about windfarms. Sure you'd need a bunch of tugs to move them around and there's the question of power and whether you'd leave the cattle on during moving, but there's no seabed mooring involved or anything like that.
- cr1895 10y agoOops! I subconciously read all of the above as "wind farms."