I would like to underscore one of J's points, the two three-legged structures in the rear of the train photo are just the foundations for the Bard turbines. just the foundations.
if any of you ever get into arguments about the job-creation potential of offshore wind (at least in No. Europe) show them these photos and tell them to kiss your ass sweetly. Those factories and yards didn't exist three years ago. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
This is an onshore prototype of the "jacket" foundations that will be used offshore, with a Repower 5M turbine on top (300 tons). The foundation is 50meters high; made of the same metal bits used to make pipelines. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
anyone want a job servicing this test turbine in winter, noticing the 50 meters of exposed ladder? (of course, that would be under water in the real world.) "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Other types: monopiles, gravity solutions, tripods. You can't be me, I'm taken
It's been a funny day - I also had to rewrite a voiceover I'm doing on Friday for a documentary on Kinbaku - the embrace of the rope. As this is a family site I will give no further details ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
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We now return you to to the regular OT discussion on binding the winds offshore. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
the use of fire, knives, tattoos, boiling water, pheasants, divining blocks and rocking horses[citation needed], etc.
I hope your voice-over copy goes into the etc, too. Pheasants and rocking horses are like, so-o-o-o passé.
But it is an interesting subject, psychologically. You can't be me, I'm taken
The have all-sorts of funny names on platforms, like Xmastrees. Come across one of those before?
Only finance or petro-chemicals/nuclear count as real private innovation. keep to the Fen Causeway
Are you sure they aren't alien invasion robots? Now that we disacovered the aliens...
*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
