The world's largest single-capacity floating wind platform has two turbines

JakenVeina , 2 minutes ago

The hell does “single-capacity” mean here? The article doesn’t specify.

TIN , 1 hour ago

What part of this don’t you understand? If two turbines is good, and three turbines is better, obviously five turbines would make us the best fucking wind platform that ever existed. Comprende? We didn’t claw our way to the top of the wind platform game by clinging to the two-turbine industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five turbines is the biggest chance of all.

thejml , 37 minutes ago

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/beab0297-2207-458f-bc08-28c7c326285e.webp

Sure, we could go to four blades next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three… Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we’re a business, that’s why!

NOT_RICK , 3 hours ago

Looks cool as hell. Here in NJ a bunch of NIMBY pricks have been fighting offshore wind because it “ruins the view” which I find laughable. Seeing clean energy being produced makes me smile, who cares if there’s a windmill on the horizon.

tal , 2 hours ago

Looking on Zillow, it looks like a beachfront house on Long Beach Island in New Jersey is ~$2.5-5 million.

Cross the street, go one house back from the beach – the differentiating factor between the two being whether there’s a view out over the ocean – and the price drops to maybe $1.5-2.5 million.

So you figure that people there basically bought a house plus a window with a fancy picture in it, and that picture cost maybe one to several million dollars.

I wouldn’t pay several million dollars for a fancy picture, but I imagine that if someone has done that, then they’re probably liable to get pissy if people go and fiddle with it.

NOT_RICK , 2 hours ago

Yeah that’s definitely a component, although I’m not sure it would even actually hurt the value. The beaches are public so they already cannot control that view. My favorite of their arguments was all of them very quickly becoming whale activists and stating with certainty that windmills kill whales.

Wanderer , 2 hours ago

Fuck them.

But more realistically there should be a land value tax in place anyway. If the price does go down I wouldn’t be totally against giving them money. But would have to be over a period of say 10 years to avoid any market inefficient panic causing a temporary dip.

Ilovethebomb , 1 hour ago

I quite like windmills, I’d love to have a view of some working.

NJSpradlin , 1 hour ago

My favorite memory in video gaming of a waterfront town? FFVIII and they little water town in the middle of the fucking ocean with its turbines surrounding it. Ahead of its time, but super quaint and fun. People get fucking* defensive about change when they get older, and have enough money to speak with it.

tal , 1 hour ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRgGmH-nCBo

Download that and set it to fullscreen on a 4k monitor on your wall.

Wanderer , 36 minutes ago (edited 15 minutes ago)

So just for context.

Fixed wind turbines can only really be put in in 60m depth or less. Water that shallow is usually close the coast though there are some exceptions like the dogger bank, but that’s rare.

If you are 100m off the ground you can see 36 km out to sea. (Or be visible 36 km from shore).

The EEZ of countries, where you can install wind turbines, is 370km from shore. Currently (new tech) there seems to be floating offshore capable of operating at 1km deep waters.

If floating wind takes off. Visibility might not be an issue at all. Wind speeds are higher and more constant out out sea. It’s a win, win, win. If it can be made cheap enough.