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Two words: Offshore wind.
by ncmncm 5y ago
Two words: Offshore wind.
- Hikikomori 5y agoHow far though?
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoHere's a list of offshore windmill parks in the North Sea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in_the_North_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in.... The closest ones to my country are about 13 kilometers offshore. Bonus numbers, the horizon 'drops off' at 5 KM distance, and modern windmills are about 300m high.
- baud147258 5y agooffshore wind has even longer timescale and you still have local opposition from NIMBYs and you add local fishers and conservation activists (I remember one project off the coast of France that received opposition from the Sea Shepherd)
- neuronic 5y agoNIMBYs are jsut as much of a problem with nuclear because you need to run the generated electricity through power lines that may need to be constructed. Whose land are they running through?
- baud147258 5y agoI wouldn't have though that the power lines would be the biggest issue for nuclear power in regard to NIMBYs. And even then any generation method would require installing power lines...
- davedx 5y agoYup this has been a huge problem in Germany. Increasing transmission capacity between north Germany where all the wind resources are and south where the industry is has been fraught with obstacles by NIMBY's who don't like the power lines.
- raytube 5y agoAt least overhead lines are honest. I find the buried infrastructure harder to level in my brain.
- ncmncm 5y agoYou dislike water delivered in pipes that do not freeze? Where do you find overhead plumbing? And, is the wiring in your house all exposed?
- raytube 5y agoYeah bad example, most wiring is visible in the house. But water pipes outside. You have a point. Weirdly cut an old buried feeder out the ground today. The untidy assortment of cabling under the living room floor sends shivers through my spine even though that's hidden. I once was a cable guy.