So it’s a top heavy, wind resistor that floats. Better have some hella wicked ballast.
Wow! And they are so beautiful! And they are perfect perches for thousands of sea birds!
Nothing can go wrong!
No chance of sabotage, either!
How many birds will they kill each day?
A whole herd of them would look so good right off Martha’s Vineyard.
Just hang out at the bottom and live off of the dead birds! If you can fend off the sharks! LOL
Gonna need one big extention cord
How cute!
Doesn’t look like it would stay afloat for very long.
And, BTW, wind power isn’t free. Whatever is on the downwind side will receive less wind energy than before, thus a windmill changes the environment more directly than burning fuel.
Burn coal. It’s cheaper.
The US Energy Information Administration currently projects the capacity-weighted LCOE of new offshore wind assets coming online in 2026 to average $115.04 per megawatt-hour, with some regions capable of getting that under US$100.
Looking at my bill, I pay $0.0763 per KWHS. That is of course with a coal fired power plant that will be shut down 12/31/21 because we will switch to solar and wind her in Washington State. I am sure the price should go down. /s
I wonder how they will work in the winter when they ice over from sea spray.
And how they will handle a nor’easter type storm.
Pardon me for thinking, but we’re talking Norway here; where as a former Norwegian himself once told me, “There is 9 months of winter and 3 months of bad weather”. This calls to mind, photos of metal structures encrusted with ice a foot thick. With these things anchored out in Norwegian waters, how are those magic rotors going to operate when encased in ice? And covered with tons of ice, what keeps the whole shebang from capsizing? Those boys need to lay off the aquavit (sic) and head back to the drawing board. In the Caribbean it might work. But Norway?!
And monkeys could fly out my butt.
What an abomination.
Wow, that’s a mega seabird killer! Wonder how it will fare in a hurricane? How far will it travel? Let the betting pools begin
Put a few hundred of these off the coast of Florida and the hurricanes won’t dare move ashore.
“WCS has not yet released further details about prototypes or first installations”
so nothing yet but pretty pictures and pie-in-the-sky “projections” ...
100% chance this thing will never actually get built: anyone with more than two functioning neurons can see that it would crumple like wet tissue paper during the first major oceanic storm ...
One word
Hurricane.
Cool in theory. Lame in practice. Nothing beats the efficiency of an integral fast reactor. Solar takes 75 years to pay off. Wind and geothermal are not worth the effort. 1000 feet is massive. The tallest skyscraper in Los Angeles is 1,100 feet and it is massive.