Wind turbines and offshore energy development
Stolp, Nils
National Fisherman has been covering the first baby steps being taken by offshore energy producers and their allies/supporters in government and the environmental industry to turn our offshore waters into obstacle courses made up of wind turbines that, in their first stage of development, will rival the Eiffel Tower in height, with blades that sweep almost half a million square feet of air per revolution and with blade tip velocities of up to 200 miles per hour (see Kirk Moore’s “Fisheries science needs to catch up with offshore wind power [1]”. Whether they are mounted on massive “foundations” on the sea floor or floated in place and moored to the bottom, their construction and their operation is going to have more of an impact on our continental shelf – and on our fisheries – than most of us could imagine just a few years ago. …
Sediment plumes, Thanet wind energy facility
Download original document: “Wind turbines and offshore energy development [2]”
URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbines-and-offshore-energy-development/
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[1] Fisheries science needs to catch up with offshore wind power: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2018/09/10/fisheries-science-needs-to-catch-up-with-offshore-wind-power/
[2] Wind turbines and offshore energy development: https://docs.wind-watch.org/Wind-turbines-and-offshore-energy-development.pdf