tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post1680229886391606744..comments2024-01-09T00:39:13.955+00:00Comments on Oh what NOW!: Offshore Wind Turbines.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-8807205999539987822010-10-08T02:03:12.215+01:002010-10-08T02:03:12.215+01:00If one looks to the Danish experience there some ...If one looks to the Danish experience there some some bits of wire they are very relieved to have - which has saved their Danish Bacon™ more than once - the HVDC power connector from Norway hydro electric plants.There's diversity.<br /><br />We are already being shafted. Look at <a href="http://www.french-property.com/news/money_france/edf_electricity_prices_2010/" rel="nofollow"> what the French are paying for tricolor electrons.</a> = around half the price of a Union Jack particle and then <a href="http://www.french-property.com/news/money_france/french_electricity_prices/" rel="nofollow">they're being investigated for price fixing!!.... </a><br /><br />With that sort of price differential smuggling electrons seems like a good business to get into.<br /><br />We are being misled and lied to by unscrupulous arseholes who want to get their hands in our wallets en masse.<br /><br />Last winter they almost melted the French HVDC connector across the channel - it's about time we built some more.<br /><br />What about a public subscription campaign to buy and operate some HVDC connectors from France? It's an old, tried and tested and almost forgotten method to get infrastructure in place - and a perfect home for those(we?) dirty skeptics?Gordon the Fence Post Tortoisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04426735271858751220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-11050022544929862372010-10-07T17:48:33.125+01:002010-10-07T17:48:33.125+01:00The telecoms industry has been doing this for year...The telecoms industry has been doing this for years with undersea cables so it isn't such a big leap for their maintenance crews to pick up the new skills for these cables.<br /><br />I do agree that it isn't cheap, outages can last for a very along time and its more than likely (straw man alert) that those who are selling offshore wind as the great saviour haven't considered these costs,or at best have seriously down played them.<br /><br /><br />One way round all the problems is to have diversity, ie two cables taking completely different routes, which doubles costs or to run loops, which increases costs but not by as much. However, with loops the ends have to be able to carry X times the power, which may not be possible. (Where X is the number of windmills)SimonFnoreply@blogger.com