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Offshore wind is turning out to be a lot easier to sell. Unfortunately, the skills involved in deploying on land don't transfer very easily to sea work. Doing
by ncmncm 4y ago
Offshore wind is turning out to be a lot easier to sell.
Unfortunately, the skills involved in deploying on land don't transfer very easily to sea work. Doing anything at sea is a specialty of its own. So, people with long sea experience will learn to put up wind turbines.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoI read somewhere that companies who build platforms for oil rigs were getting into it since they already have the necessary expertise.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoThat was problematic too because the overriding goal with an oil platform is to get it pumping asap due to the high value of the product and size of costs already sunk. A wind turbine (even an extremely large one) otoh is only earning $400/hr so if you spend a million dollars getting it up 3mo earlier you've made a loss. I'm sure some have adapted though.
- ncmncm 4y agoLabor is adaptable, management less so.