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Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 09:29:36baha wrote:OK, so I was bored....
Someone want to check my work??
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 09:35:04mos6507 wrote:skeptik wrote:Plenty of free space off Americas East & West coasts as far as I can see.
And thanks to the rapidly increasing dead zones, not a lot of environmental conerns either.
baha wrote:I That is why I am hoping for a fast crash. If we realize SOON that we have to get off our asses and start building alternatives before the price is too high we might yet survive.
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 09:38:36mommy22 wrote:Also, is there any effort to make small (individual house size) windmills? Where I live (NEOhio) it's either windy or sunny almost all the time...if there was a combo unit solar/windmill that would sit on my roof, I'd buy it!
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 09:38:47Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 09:39:23skeptik wrote:Thought we were discussing oil rigs and windmills.
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 09:57:00mos6507 wrote:skeptik wrote:Thought we were discussing oil rigs and windmills.
Environmental impact is a big part of the OCS drilling debate.
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 11:31:58The fast crash scenario has a "shock" factor. The real problem we have is denial. The issue is not how many wells we can drill but how can we get away from oil alltogether. I fully support offshore windmills or onshore for that matter. Fast crash will mean there is still oil available for building windmills. Slow crash means by the time we start building there will not be enough energy left to support the construction.
I also support new drilling but we need to use the energy gained to construct alternatives. The prevailing attitude is...drill more wells, get more oil, problem solved. But no matter what, eventually the oil will run out.
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 12:41:57KingM wrote:baha wrote:OK, so I was bored....
Someone want to check my work??
Easy enough to debunk. Thunder Horse is a huge project, not a single well. If you had 44 THs to add in the US alone, you'd triple American production of crude.
I don't know about the economics of offshore wind, but your back of the envelope math doesn't invalidate it.
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 14:29:31I do. What's up?skiptamali wrote:Does anyone here have extensive experience in wind turbines?
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 20:16:32VMarcHart wrote:I do. What's up?skiptamali wrote:Does anyone here have extensive experience in wind turbines?
Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008, 21:39:43It depends on the soil condition. The Atlantic is still very shallow 15 miles offshore, whereas the Pacific can be significant deeper. The shallower the easier.skiptamali wrote:How feasible is it to put them 15+ miles off US coastlines?
Generally yes, but the problem is not the technology; it's our insane and unstoppable demand for energy. Also, it doesn't work to produce electricity offshore Florida and transmit it 2,000 miles to Minnesota.skiptamali wrote:Is the technology there?
Some blades may break, it may cause excessive stress to the tower, perhaps the foundation, but if they fall, nobody will be hurt and it is easily salvable.skiptamali wrote:What happens if a hurricane hits?
I can't give details, but slightly higher installation cost than land-based, with perhaps less wear and tear on the clutch and gearbox because of the steadier wind regime.skiptamali wrote:What's cost of installation & maintenance like?
About 30 years.skiptamali wrote:Lifespan on an offshore windmill?
Glad to serve. Let me know if you need anything else.skiptamali wrote:Glad you showed up.
Posted: Fri 22 Aug 2008, 14:48:56Posted: Fri 22 Aug 2008, 14:59:26Thanks for the credit. Alas, I didn't participate in those deals. Offshore wind is great, but only goes so far. I'm sure you can inject into ERCOT South, and thus into all ERCOT --constraints permitting--, but evidently it will not go outside ERCOT. Off Beaumont/Port Arthur you can sell into Entergy, and that's about it.ROCKMAN wrote:Offshore wind farms is far from a theory in Texas (largest producer of onshore wind generated e in the US). Some time ago the state awarded, after competative bidding, offshore wind farm leases off the coast of south Texas. Now that the winners have the right it will be interesting to see if they can finance the follow through. Maybe V knows something about the winners.
Posted: Fri 22 Aug 2008, 15:08:26Posted: Fri 22 Aug 2008, 15:34:07I find it hypocritical that a man who made so much money on feeding America's addition to oil, puts out a massive plan to cut the addiction, will make even more money on the solution, and will come out as the savior. Outrageous!ROCKMAN wrote:Damn...I wish I had as much smart as Boone has in his little finger.
Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 08:51:06Today, a revolutionary British design that mimics a spinning sycamore leaf and which was inspired by floating oil platform technology, entered the race. Leading engineering firm Arup is to work with an academic consortium backed by blue-chip companies including Rolls Royce, Shell and BP to create detailed designs for the "Aerogenerator", a machine that rotates on its axis and would stretch nearly 275m from blade tip to tip. It is thought that the first machines will be built in 2013-14 following two years of testing.
Posted: Mon 10 Oct 2011, 20:15:48Deepwater Wind has officially submitted its plan to develop a utility-scale offshore wind farm off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
The bid comes in response to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement's (BOEMRE) call for information and nominations for offshore wind energy projects in the federal ocean waters off southern New England.
As planned, Deepwater Wind's project - the Deepwater Wind Energy Center (DWEC) - will have a capacity of approximately 1 GW and will serve as a regional offshore wind energy center serving multiple states on the East Coast.
DWEC will be sited in the deep ocean waters of southern Rhode Island Sound, where it will be barely visible from the shore, Deepwater Wind explains. Construction is expected to begin in 2014 or 2015, and the first wind turbines are planned to enter operation by the end of 2016 or 2017.
Posted: Mon 10 Oct 2011, 20:23:27A while back I promised some charts based on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy. So, for your geeky viewing pleasure, I’ve created a “motion chart” that tracks global wind power installations, from 1997 through 2010.
Click here to see the wonktastic “motion chart.” It takes a few moments to load, so be patient. And once it loads, feel free to play with it a bit to get a feel for the numbers. The vertical axis of the chart represents per capita wind power installed in various countries, and the horizontal represents total wind power.
Third, the US—sometimes called “The Saudi Arabia of Wind“—led the world in total wind power capacity in 2008 and 2009. But in 2010 the US lost its overall lead to China. The US still beats China in terms of wind power per capita. But despite the surge in interest in renewable power in the US, China came on strong in 2008 through 2010, with massive, rapid deployment of wind power that rocketed the Asian giant into a position of global leadership.
Posted: Tue 29 Nov 2011, 22:56:38Europe's offshore wind industry could be investing €10.4bn in turbines annually by 2020, growing to €17bn by 2030, according to a new report from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
Published yesterday, the EWEA offshore wind supply chain report (PDF) predicts that the nascent sector will grow tenfold in the next decade, delivering 40GW of installed capacity by 2020 and meeting more than four per cent of the EU's total electricity demand.
Under that deployment scenario, annual investment in offshore wind turbines could reach €10.4bn a year by 2020, creating 169,000 jobs.
The report predicts that capacity could then potentially reach 150GW by 2030, supplying 13.9 per cent of total EU electricity demand, and driving investment of €17bn a year in turbines.
Many of the projects are planned in north west Europe, particularly UK, German and Belgium waters. The UK currently has around 45 per cent of Europe's total offshore wind capacity, and is planning to build another 47GW.
According to the report, 18 European countries will have some offshore wind capacity by 2020.
