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But what happens if you have a place like the North Sea surrounded by facilities for deploying oil rigs and associated infrastructure, for the oil to run out? T
by Theodores 9y ago
But what happens if you have a place like the North Sea surrounded by facilities for deploying oil rigs and associated infrastructure, for the oil to run out? There is considerable sunk cost in the infrastructure and with some subsidies to keep yards busy (as such things are needed for national security reasons) it all becomes a lot easier.
- olau 9y agoWhat happens is that you get crazy plans like this: http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-looking-into-building-north-sea-wind-energy-island.html http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-looking-into-building-north-s... In a couple of decades, I think the North Sea is going have vast areas full of wind turbines.
- isostatic 9y agoOne of the only complaints about offshore wind is it "spoils the view". A 250m high turbine can be seen from about 30m away - dogger is twice that distance. Current plans are for 5GW of production, that's about 15% of the UK's current electricity demand, and more than is produced by the UK's wind farms in total. If successful I can't see anything stopping expansion to the initial planned 9GW, other than capital funding.