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European offshore wind industry taking off | 35 comments (35 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Actually, ther wind resource is rather good in the French Mediteranean:

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jan 18th, 2010 at 09:32:55 AM EST
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Yes, but the ocean floor doesn't help. On the Atlantic it would, though.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jan 18th, 2010 at 09:37:22 AM EST
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Re: Mediteranean (none / 1)

That would be thanks to the Mistral and Tramontane.
I have lived near Marseille a couple of years back: it is a windy country.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Mon Jan 18th, 2010 at 12:06:31 PM EST
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Re: Mediteranean (none / 0)

I did too, and it makes me wonder if there is such a thing for this as too much windstrength.

When it blows hard, I can't imagine a 80km/h windgust is exploitable. But, maybe it s...

Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh

by redstar on Mon Jan 18th, 2010 at 04:16:15 PM EST
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Re: Mediteranean (none / 0)

The wind resource is great. The difficulty onshore is to find locations that don't disturb people, and offshore to find somewhere not too deep and not to close to shore.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jan 18th, 2010 at 04:30:19 PM EST
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