UK's Hornsea 2: North Sea wind farm claims title of world's largest -- BBC

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The wind farm has 165 turbines

Hornsea 2: North Sea wind farm claims title of world's largest

By Jonah Fisher | August 31, 2022

...The Hornsea 2 project can generate enough electricity to power about 1.3 million homes - that's enough for a city the size of Manchester.

A decade ago renewables made up just 11% of the UK's energy mix. By 2021 it was 40%, with offshore wind the largest component...

...Hornsea 2 has taken the title of "world's largest" from its neighbour Hornsea 1. It covers an area about four and half time the size of Liverpool. With even larger projects under construction nearby in the North Sea it's unlikely its title will last long. The Dogger Bank wind farm, which when fully built will be able to power 6m homes, is due to start coming on stream next year.

Each of the 165 turbines in Hornsea 2 stands about 200m tall from the sea level to the top of the 81m blades. Mr Harnett says a single rotation takes six seconds and provides enough energy to power a home for a day. more
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62731923



Hornsea 2: how big is the world’s largest offshore wind farm?

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1. Countdown until DQIIIIIIII starts jumping up and down

9, 8, 7, 6...

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2. ...5, 4, 3, 2, 1..., um, um, um, 416.56, 414.37, and 391.49 ppm

...as in...

Week beginning on August 21, 2022: 416.56 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 414.37 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 391.49 ppm
Last updated: August 31, 2022

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

Of course, while I have no idea what DQIII...blah...blah...blah...means, I assume it to be what someone might take kind of attempt at wit.

Usually, it's pretty mindless, like emojis - my favorite from dumb guys is ROFL - and the like, but it's not like the rhetoric of clowns matters all that much at this point. The maximizing of the kill rate of ignorance has probably peaked.

One of the interesting things about anti-nukes is that they giggle at a tragedy. Eighteen thousand people died from air pollution today, some of them in Germany and it's bordering countries from fossil fuel waste.



Electricity Map, Germany 220901 3:45 AM Berlin time.

I often quote the Lancet paper for the death toll rates per GWh for burning lignite in a power plant, but let's face it, anti-nukes seldom look up from their cartoons at anything like, um, numbers. If it's not calling for the expenditure of trillions of dollars to prevent their little brains from being exposed to a cesium-135 atom, they couldn't care less about numbers, not the death toll of burning fossil fuels, not the cost of climate change, not about the millions of hectares that burned in forests in the 2022 northern summer, nothing except maybe, oh what was it, I know, penny pinching about spending money on Vogtle to leave something for future generations to use.

...5...4...3...2...1...

...Giggle...

...5...4...3...2...1...

...Giggle...

Anti-nukes are a laugh a minute, if and only if they laugh at their own jokes.

As for worshipping the picture like a Catholic worshipping a picture of the "blessed virgin..."

I wouldn't expect, of course, an anti-nuke to understand how steel is made for the monstrous device in the picture for which cheering (or even reverent genuflection) is expected. I never met one who gives enough of a shit about the world as to open a science book, but they sure love to look at cartoons.

That piece of shit will be landfill in 20 years, if not sooner. The generation that are toddlers today will be charged with cleaning that piece of shit up for bourgeois assholes who didn't think in 2022.

People who give a shit, by the way, don't "jump up and down" like assholes at a Greenpeace convention dressed up in monkey suits. Often they weep.

You see, ignorance kills people, in the case of fossil fuel waste, the generation of which on which the wind and solar scams depend, again, about 18,000 people per day.

Those lives mattered.

The ship in the picture is powered by bunker oil, rather like the barges that hauled that greasy piece of shit wind turbine out to sea.

But, of course, if one is dumb enough to call a "home" a unit of energy, one obviously wouldn't know that.

The cost of electricity hit 1,000 Euros per MWh yesterday in Germany.

I guess the wind isn't blowing so well, the poor can just die if it gets too hot, right?

There's nothing really amusing about people who just don't give a shit, nothing at all.

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3. "The ship in the picture is powered by bunker oil"

What powers all the vehicles that it takes to build a nuclear plant?

And once again, what you are either purposely leaving out - or don't get yet- is that all those ships will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells or H2 ICE one day, maybe 5 years or maybe 10 years from now.

Vestas pioneers the first hydrogen-powered offshore wind energy vessel

As part of its journey towards becoming carbon neutral by 2030, without the use of offsets, Vestas is pioneering innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions from its own operations. In collaboration with long-term supplier Windcat Workboats, Vestas is launching a pilot program to explore how the world’s first hydrogen-powered crew transfer vessel (CTV) can help reduce carbon emissions from its offshore service operations...https://www.evwind.es/2022/07/04/vestas-pioneers-the-first-hydrogen-powered-offshore-wind-energy-vessel/86824

I guess the wind isn't blowing so well, the poor can just die if it gets too hot, right?

Horseshit. Believe it or not, there are places on the planet where the wind (almost) always blows - like the North Sea. And on the rare occasions when it doesn't, that's where hydrogen enters the picture. But you, in your infinite "wisdom" have ridiculed the tech. Because it's kind of like religion, this Nuclear fixation, isn't it.

Most of those who want a green future realize that it will take more than just wind, more than just solar, more than just hydrogen and more than just nuclear to get there.. It's called 'technology agnosticism' - try it. To push one tech and only one tech is for losers - or "investors" as they would call themselves.


An ex-NASA rover engineer tells us why 'technology agnosticism' will save the planet

You see, ignorance kills people

We finally agree on something.

META: Only one rec at the time of this writing for the biggest wind farm on the planet.

Interesting, that.

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4. Um, modern nuclear plants are designed to...

...last eighty years. When the Vogtle plant reaches the end of its life, the blades on the wind turbine in the obscene picture in the OP will have been landfill for half a century.

I'm not some uneducated fool who obviously can't even grasp the simplest statement of the Second law of thermodynamics.

I understand that the only way to serve humanity, to provide energy to those who now live in energy poverty is to improve recovered exergy from high temperature systems.

In addition I know how steel is made.

Rather than post cartoons of religious pictures of greasy wind turbines, I open science books, scientific papers and attend events for scientists. I'm not reciting 50 year old hype about a gas with a critical temperature of -240C.

I'm proposing the phase out, on an accelerated pace, of the dangerous fossil fuels on which the wind scam depends using a gas with a critical temperature that's around +150C, 50C higher than the boiling point of water. Nor do I ignore the laws of thermodyamics in doing so. I have spent thousands of hours considering how to provide this energy using what is now waste heat rejected to the atmosphere.

The term for this is "thermodynamic efficiency." Note that this is different than "Faradaic efficiency," a term that all of the electrolysis hyping kids don't understand even as they play make believe with cute but delusional videos.

I am discussing with my son how to make nuclear plants devices for the capture and utilization of the carbon dioxide dumped in the planetary atmosphere while we all waited for the "renewable energy" nirvana that did not come, is not here, and won't come. The wait for this reactionary fantasy has set the planet afire.

I know how I define ignorance, and I really, really, really don't care how practitioners of the Dunning-Kruger effect define it.

Since I spend the majority of my absolutely free time reading scientific publications, I can spot someone completely unexposed to them in about 15 seconds.