So, what happened to that floating Norwegian wind turbine? It was deployed in June.

[jpak]

Floating wind turbine launched

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8085551.stm

The world's first floating wind turbine is to be towed out to sea this weekend.

Statoil's Alexandra Beck Gjorv told the BBC the technology, the Hywind, to be put off Norway's coast - "should help move offshore wind farms out of sight".

And it could lead to offshore wind farms eventually being located many miles offshore, away from areas where they cause disruption, Ms Gjorv added.

This would benefit military radar operations, the shipping industry, fisheries, bird life and tourism.

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World's first floating wind turbine opens in Norway

http://www.physorg.com/news171634899.html

The world's first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been inaugurated in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro said Tuesday.

The turbine known as Hywind, which measures 65 metres (213 feet) tall and weighs 5,300 tonnes, lies some 10 kilometres (seven miles) off the island of Karmoey near the Scandinavian country's southwestern coastline, the company said.

It rests upon a floating stand that is anchored to the seabed by three cables. Water and rocks are placed inside the stand to provide balast.

StatoilHydro plans to test Hywind over the next two years before it looks to set up any more floating wind turbines with international partners.

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Sorry to burst the Stupid Bubble - again.

not

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x212513

[izquierdista]

1. A good strong wind and we make it to Greenland!

[XemaSab]

9. We are your overlords!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svR3iXKTJvc

[jpak]

2. suck it urec trolls

:rofl:

[vinylsolution]

3. Just think how many miles of coastline we have....

.... a few thousand of these would really make a difference.... if the political will was there.

Summer off the Carolinas and Florida coasts might be a bit tricky, though.

Do these giant turbines have blades that can be folded away during extreme weather?

[Laelth]

7. Wind Power Blows.

Wind Power BLOWS.

See the following:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/25/wind-turbine-bats.html
http://www.keepersoftheblueridge.com/faqs.html
http://www.nortexwind.org/index.htm
http://www.stopillwind.org/index.php
http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/
http://www.savewesternny.org/
http://www.wind-watch.org/
http://www.epaw.org/
http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/?p=166
http://www.rivercitymalone.com/?p=654
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/21/the-unbearable-lightness-of-wi
http://notesfromotherside.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-on-renewable-energy.html
http://www.pest-03.org/ (Power Engineers Supporting Truth)

Or just watch this series of videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNxvkrgoPLo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_utFV2ukOtU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOd5tSZF3A4&feature=related

There's more, but you get the idea. :)

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[JohnWxy]

4. recommended.

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[NNadir]

6. Wow!!!!!!! Fabulous!!!!!! Does this mean that Statoil is going to shut its gas wells?

Lots and lots and lots of "coulds" in that post, which must mean that it does not produce significant energy.

I will say this: It beats the hell out of the Utsira wind project that was supposed to power millions of hydrogen HYPErcars, and it definitely beats the scam that Statoil ran when it kept promising to build the Sleipner sequestration fields, at least for as long as the Norwegian natural gas plants were approved and on line.

It will of course operate until it blows over, or is wiped out in a storm, whereupon stupid dumb fundie anti-nukes will not care less.

I note that the article is at least as stupid as most stupid anti-nuke fundies are, inasmuch as it stupidly asserts what the peak power is and is clueless about energy.

Maybe the stupid are embarrassed (after 7 years of hyping the renewable energy industry during its failure to make even a slight dent in the rate of increase of dangerous fossil fuel waste in Earth's atmosphere) by quoting the stupid confusion between power and energy.

The article of course, does mention this point:

A total of 400 million kroner (46 million euros, 66 million dollars) has been invested in the 2.3-megawatt floating turbine, making it a far more expensive option than its fixed counterpart.

Let's be generous and forget the low capacity utilization this piece of sea junk will actually involve and pretend like a stupid fundie anti-nuke that it operates at the max, 2.3 MW continuously. It follows that it would take 434 of these babies to replace just one of the nuclear plants that the dumb fundie anti-nukes want to shut because they can't think, can't do science, and can't violate their own fundie dogma.

It follows, and you're excused if your a dumb fundie anti-nuke and can't do math, that replacing one nuclear plant with this unreliable short lived junk would cost $29,000,000,000,000. By coincidence, 29 billion is very close to the number of tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste dumped into the planet's atmosphere each year while whiny uneducated cretins keep saying "could!!!!!" Could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!."

The fundies are always classic in what they ignore. Imagine though that there was a nuclear plant somewhere that required to produce, at peak, 1000 MWe and it cost $29 billion bucks to build!

The number of the same dumb fundies who actually see what is, is predictably zero.

Have a nice and pleasant bourgeois oblivious evening.

[Javaman]

8. Let's all give a round of applause the comedic stylings of Nnadir!!!nt

[jpak]

10. Unlike your fake made-up molted salt breeder reactor that you never invented this is ((((REAL)))))

:rofl:

[skids]

11. I wonder if it would be cost effective...

...to move floating windfarms seasonally...