‘World’s largest offshore wind farm’ produces power for the first time
‘World’s largest offshore wind farm’ produces power for the first time
www.euronews.com ‘World’s largest offshore wind farm’ produces power for the first time
A single rotation of this wind turbine - twice as tall as the London Eye - can power a home for two days.
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Impressive scale, with mills the size of Rockefeller center and the farm's extent equal to London. Still only 5 percent of UK's energy consumption when they are operating at max capacity. Two things come to mind:
- What was the cost in terms of climate gases to build and install these, and what are the plans for their eventual decommissioning?
- What are the impacts on atmospheric flows, especially if this was scaled up to cover a larger part of UK consumption, and joined by similar installations from other countries?
No, they are going to produce 5% of the UKs electricity consumption, when the park has all wind turbines installed. Right now that is not the case, so it is a bit missleading to call it the worlds largest offshore wind park right now.