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I understand that Japan doesn't have a huge amount of land available, but they do have a ton of sea coastline. I would have thought that offshore wind generati
by paranoidrobot 7y ago
I understand that Japan doesn't have a huge amount of land available, but they do have a ton of sea coastline.
I would have thought that offshore wind generation would deliver far more capacity than they need at an equal or lower price than coal (which they'd have to import).
Distributing wind generation over larger areas would compensate for local variances in capacity.
There's typhoons, earthquakes and the occasional tsunami to deal with - but surely not unsolvable issues.
- dx87 7y agoIt could be a security issue. Wikipedia says that Japan and China frequently have disputes, including over territory. Building a coal power plant will probably be easier to keep safe than offshore power generation methods, considering how close they are to China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China-Japan_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China-Japan_relations
- AtlasBarfed 7y agoWhy? To stop offshore power they'd have to bomb thousands of rotors To stop coal, they bomb three powerplants
- tzs 7y agoFurthermore, Japan imports most of its coal. If relations between China and Japan deteriorated to the point that China was attacking Japanese wind farms, almost all of which would be within 20 miles of Japan's main islands and hundreds of miles from any disputed territory, then its probably to the point that ships carrying the coal imports would not be safe either.