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The steel plant isn’t built along the south coast though, where the wind turbines will be, it’s built in the opposite end of Sweden (boden).
by tmikaeld 5y ago
The steel plant isn’t built along the south coast though, where the wind turbines will be, it’s built in the opposite end of Sweden (boden).
- cinntaile 5y agoThe north of Sweden is exactly where most of the big wind turbine parks will be. You have plenty of open space and limited NIMBY. NIMBY is also the reason why you were under the impression that most turbines are going to end up in the south of Sweden, it leads to disproportional attention in the media.
- tmikaeld 5y agoHm, you're right, from the maps I saw in state media, it all looks like it would be along the south coasts and Germany's coast. But there's just as much if not even more MW going to the north!
- cinntaile 5y agoIt's probably a projection error as well. The normal maps really don't show how big the north of Sweden really is.
- CRConrad 5y agoThat's funny. I'd have thought most maps are based on the standard Mercator projection, which is infamous for exaggerating sizes more the farther north you go? (The commonly-used blatant example used is how Greenland looks almost as big as Africa on a flat map, but on a globe it's tiny in comparison.) So unless you've seen some weird non-standard map, the north of Sweden probably looks bigger than it ought to, not smaller.
- yxhuvud 5y agoThe new wind park that is intended to provide the energy for this is not along the south coast but also in northern Sweden though. Also, last I heard neither the exact location for the windmills or the steel mill are set in stone yet.