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If Elon Musk (or any suitable ambitious and rich person) fancies an exciting challenge, there is a very large and ancient body of land in relatively shallow wat
by alva 9y ago
If Elon Musk (or any suitable ambitious and rich person) fancies an exciting challenge, there is a very large and ancient body of land in relatively shallow waters (15m) between the UK and the Continent called Doggerland [0].
Many years ago some people were looking into reclaiming the island and making it the worlds biggest wind farm. It is in a perfect location. Plus you never know, might be able to make it an independent nation ;). Possibly a good launch site?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
- sharpercoder 9y agohttps://www.tennet.eu/nl/onze-kerntaken/innovaties/north-sea-infrastructure/ https://www.tennet.eu/nl/onze-kerntaken/innovaties/north-sea...
- jimrandomh 9y agoNot a usable launch site; it's too far from the equator to reach the most common orbits, and for polar orbits, it'd be dropping boosters either in Europe (unsafe) or the arctic (hard to recover).
- admiun 9y agoI think it's already part of proposal [1] to generate a healthy chunk of the power required for the six North Sea countries. The video [2] is pretty interesting. [1] https://iabr.nl/en/projectatelier/Atelier2050 https://iabr.nl/en/projectatelier/Atelier2050 [2] https://vimeo.com/199825983 https://vimeo.com/199825983