

  (Source: Siemens AG)
Project cost $2.84B USD, exploits natural abundance of marine winds


I. London Array is Turned On





II. Green Profit, But Energy Firms are Hungry for More




UK offshore wind
[Image Source: Siemens]




Sources: London Array [press release], Bloomberg

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RE: Idiots...
By Stan11003 on 7/5/2013 1:10:27 AM , Rating: 2
How much is maintanance between the two.I'd say storing the waste for decades is not cheap thing.

RE: Idiots...
By greenchinesepuck on 7/5/2013 2:10:16 AM , Rating: 1
It's an order of magnitude cheaper than repairing all these hundreds of wind turbines all the time, fixing damage caused by wind, hurricanes and salty water

RE: Idiots...
By deksman2 on 7/5/2013 2:33:17 AM , Rating: 1
That's the problem with Capitalism or any other monetary based system.
Inject notion of 'cost' into the picture, and you will throw out technical efficiency out the window.
For decades, Humanity had the brains, the know-how, the technology and the feasibility to design any technology to be weather proof, durable (won't ever break down), resistant to corrosion, salt water and requires little to no maintenance.
Such technology would have to be designed from synthetic materials that have superior properties and can be produced in abundance (more than enough) using less resources (which is called technical efficiency, and was feasible since the late 19th century).

All of this comes down to the question of cost in the current socio-economic system, which is downright idiotic.
Its no wonder we use obsolete materials, methods of production and science to do things cheap.

RE: Idiots...
By BZDTemp on 7/5/2013 2:56:53 AM , Rating: 2
Damage by wind? What hurricanes?

This ain't you back yard domestic wind turbine those big ones can take a lot and as for hurricanes exactly how many hurricanes do you think hits the UK?

RE: Idiots...
By silverblue on 7/5/2013 3:41:27 AM , Rating: 2
We don't get powerful windstorms very often (and we can't call them hurricanes anyway). There's a good number of these farms on the east coast, though one might argue that they should be focusing more on the west coast than they currently are.

RE: Idiots...
By retrospooty on 7/5/2013 9:09:12 AM , Rating: 2

You are responding to Pirks's new post-banned ID, so you need to understand that he is more "piss and vinegar" than actual thoughts and facts.

