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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Arlo on September 02, 2022, 01:37:53 PM
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https://www.iflscience.com/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-is-finally-operational-65145?fbclid=IwAR2gLC7CZM64EfqNlLUiQA2J9Sdsp0x0vb1uzZJX2tGW7DugDMAx7_pJvaM
(https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/65145/aImg/61582/honsea-l.webp)
Hornsea 2, a wind farm off the coast of the UK, is now fully operational and ready to help power around 1.3 million U.K. homes. With 165 turbines covering an area of 462 square kilometers (roughly 178 square miles), it is officially the biggest offshore wind farm on the planet.
“The UK is one of the world leaders in offshore wind,” Patrick Harnett, program director for the Hornsea 2 wind farm, told BBC News. “This is very exciting after five years of work to have full commercial operations at the world's largest offshore wind farm.”
The new farm’s claim to fame as the world’s largest will be short-lived, however. The Dogger Bank wind farm, which is due to start coming on stream next year, will eventually be able to power a whopping 6 million homes – more than four times the number powered by Hornsea 2.
Hornsea 2 is located about 89 kilometers (55 miles) offshore, and at that distance, it can be hard to appreciate just how big these babies are. Each of the 165 turbines rises about 200 meters (656 feet) above the sea, with each of the three blades stretching 81 meters (266 feet) across – each one is about the height of the Washington Monument and the width of … also the Washington Monument, actually, except rotating.
The announcement marks the completion of a project which first started delivering energy back in December 2021. A single rotation of the blades can reportedly power one UK home for 24 hours. Since each revolution takes just six seconds, that scales up to more than 14,000 homes every day, for every turbine.
That’s good news for a few reasons – the most obvious being the reduction in fossil fuel reliance. Renewable energy sources have been projected to reduce carbon emissions over the next three decades by a factor of up to twenty, and wind power in particular has a significantly higher energy return on investment than, say, coal. For every unit of energy invested in wind power, something like 44 units are returned as electricity, while the same input into coal would only yield about nine units of power.
But Hornsea 2 is also good news for consumers. It has a capacity of more than 1.3 gigawatts, and as the world undergoes the current energy crisis – British energy bills are projected to soar by up to 80 percent next month – wind power stands as one of the cheapest forms of energy out there.
“The last time I checked it was roughly £450 per megawatt hour to buy electricity generated by gas,” Simon Evans from Carbon Brief, a website that follows renewable energy issues, told the BBC. “That's about nine times more expensive than the current cost to build new renewable capacity.”
Hornsea 2’s launch comes at an auspicious time, with Europe’s access to gas being squeezed by sanctions on Russia. While the UK is one of the luckier nations in the continent – more than 96 percent of the country’s gas supplies come from sources other than Russia – they are still vulnerable to the international gas market volatility, giving yet more reasons to wean themselves off the fossil fuel.
“Current global events highlight more than ever the importance of landmark renewable energy projects like Hornsea 2,” Duncan Clark, head of the U.K. region at Ørsted, the company which owns the farm, told CNBC. The new farm will “[help] the UK increase the security and resilience of its energy supply and drive down costs for consumers by reducing dependence on expensive fossil fuels.”
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Bird chopperuppers <sniff>
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Waiting for the leaky gearbox problems and occasional short-circuit electrical fires to "help" the environment- let alone the fact that much of the material that they are made of is NOT recyclable and gets cut up and buried in landfills.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2021/03/16/the-tragedy-of-wind-turbine-blade-disposal/
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*Sigh* Politicizing news. :old:
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Waiting for the leaky gearbox problems and occasional short-circuit electrical fires to "help" the environment- let alone the fact that much of the material that they are made of is NOT recyclable and gets cut up and buried in landfills.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2021/03/16/the-tragedy-of-wind-turbine-blade-disposal/
stop eating, it causes waste and pollutes rivers lakes and oceans. :noid
semp
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*Sigh* Politicizing news. :old:
So, I must simply not vocalize (or write) what I think about it? What do *you* think I should speak - if at all?
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So, I must simply not vocalize (or write) what I think about it? What do *you* think I should speak - if at all?
Questions and concerns are verboten.
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I wonder how many birds are dying in that wind farm.
I've read that birds will avoid wind turbines that have at least one black blade but I don't see any black blades in that farm. So yay for more shark food?
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So, I must simply not vocalize (or write) what I think about it? What do *you* think I should speak - if at all?
End of the world posts are great. :aok
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End of the world posts are great. :aok
That's your singular interpretation- and that's fine, no matter if I agree or disagree with you, fellow human.
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So, I must simply not vocalize (or write) what I think about it? What do *you* think I should speak - if at all?
look around everything pollutes something. it's a basic common knowledge. no such thing as clean energy, just some pollutes more than others.
and elf, cars and windows kill more birds than wind farms.
semp
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So you're ok with making things worse for the birds?
You're a very, very sick man. I mean really, what did the birds ever do to you?
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look around everything pollutes something. it's a basic common knowledge. no such thing as clean energy, just some pollutes more than others.
and elf, cars and windows kill more birds than wind farms.
semp
We’ll just take your word for it…. Lmao.
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That's your singular interpretation- and that's fine, no matter if I agree or disagree with you, fellow human.
Alternate interpretation welcome, fellow human. :)
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So you're ok with making things worse for the birds?
You're a very, very sick man. I mean really, what did the birds ever do to you?
The bird scare is overblown. Ever see the size of the blades and how slow they rotate? A bird would have the be suicidal. :)
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Glass on buildings, for example, accounts for an average of 599 million bird deaths annually, according to a 2015 study published in the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. Car collisions account for nearly 200 million avian deaths per year.
Birds are also killed in other forms of energy production, according to Time. A 2012 Bureau of Land Management memo estimated between 500,000 to 1 million birds die annually in oil fields.
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And yet no links backing claim.
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Well, I suppose if it only chops up seagulls, it will be okay
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And yet no links backing claim.
Wait. You're into using links to back claims now? :D
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And yet no links backing claim.
https://www.chooseenergy.com/news/article/fact-check-wind-turbines-kill-750000-birds-year/
:D
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Wait. You're into using links to back claims now? :D
There are some who are incapable of doing their own fact check searches.
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There are some who are incapable of doing their own fact check searches.
Or unwilling to honestly reveal the five dissatisfying minutes invested. :)
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You guys just look around on the interwebz until you find something you agree with. The more you agree with it, the less likely you are to put any effort into finding out if it's true or not. This is a common phenom known as Confirmation Bias. Knowing you've got it is half the battle, and.... You've got it.
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You guys just look around on the interwebz until you find something you agree with. The more you agree with it, the less likely you are to put any effort into finding out if it's true or not. This is a common phenom known as Confirmation Bias. Knowing you've got it is half the battle, and.... You've got it.
You don't have to reveal your inner insecurities online, yaknow. :aok
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https://www.chooseenergy.com/news/article/fact-check-wind-turbines-kill-750000-birds-year/
:D
"We're only killing two-thirds of the birds as has been reported. Besides, birds die in other ways too."
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https://www.chooseenergy.com/news/article/fact-check-wind-turbines-kill-750000-birds-year/
:D
Lmao no bias there at all, none.
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There are some who are incapable of doing their own fact check searches.
So, we do.
And then...
You guys just look around on the interwebz until you find something you agree with.
.. are mocked.
Yeah.
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So, we do.
And then...
.. are mocked.
Yeah.
It’s ok when we do it.
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So, we do.
And then...
.. are mocked.
Yeah.
You NEED to be shown when your sources are biased. Because, you obviously cannot be objective on your own.
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Naturally there is no bias in what the FW/ICOMers post.
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Now you're catching on.
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We’ll just take your word for it…. Lmao.
about 1 billion birds die hitting windows, 3.2 billion by cats 300k by wind mills.
told you, you make me laugh.
semp
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So you're ok with making things worse for the birds?
You're a very, very sick man. I mean really, what did the birds ever do to you?
Well in my case toejam on a freshly starched shirt and if I get my truck detailed it automatically becomes a target zone. If the birds are too stupid to avoid a spinning blade that's just natural selection in process. Now let's repeal helmet and seatbelt laws so natural selection might have a chance to reverse the 'idiocracy' world we live in now.
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The bird scare is overblown. Ever see the size of the blades and how slow they rotate? A bird would have the be suicidal. :)
Blade velocity at the tips can hit or exceed 100mph and it's estimated that nearly 600 million birds die to wind turbines each year in the U.S.
Overblown? I think not.
Nearly 600 million annually. Read it and weep for the lost birds. https://www.livescience.com/31995-how-do-wind-turbines-kill-birds.html
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Blade velocity at the tips can hit or exceed 100mph and it's estimated that nearly 600 million birds die to wind turbines each year in the U.S.
Overblown? I think not.
*ShruG* Think not then. 0.016% of the bird population. If your concern is really ... for the birds ... then protest windows. :salute :cheers:
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Of course, birds die from other causes, too: Structures like glass-walled office buildings and utility towers, vehicular collisions and carnivorous animals (including domestic cats) kill far more birds each year than wind turbines do.
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You NEED to be shown when your sources are biased. Because, you obviously cannot be objective on your own.
So, you feel the need to do my thinking for me? How presumptuous of you.
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about 1 billion birds die hitting windows, 3.2 billion by cats 300k by wind mills.
told you, you make me laugh.
semp
That’s nice… I don’t laugh at you. More like pity, I can’t imagine how hard things are for someone in your condition.
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That’s nice… I don’t laugh at you. More like pity, I can’t imagine how hard things are for someone in your condition.
What condition is that? Be direct. Don't p-foot around. Be brave. :)
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You first.
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You first.
Me first what? I didn't project a condition. But I did expect your deflection. :aok
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*ShruG* Think not then. 0.016% of the bird population. If your concern is really ... for the birds ... then protest windows. :salute :cheers:
I care about all life, even the microscopic organisms growing on you and everyone else.
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In case you hadn't noticed, this thread is about Wind Farms and not windows. Or cars.
Please stay on topic.