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"We’re pretty much putting all our eggs in the offshore wind basket in terms of renewable energy targets and there is a chance we could be decommissioning a lot of these systems before their intended design life if they don’t behave the way we want."

newcivilengineer.com

Warning that increasingly large offshore wind turbines risk getting too big for their foundations

Engineers currently rely on design codes borrowed from the oil and gas industry to determine the geo...

10:15 PM · Jan 29, 2023

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😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡

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We aren’t putting all our eggs in offshore wind. We aren’t putting all our eggs in monopile structures. We aren’t putting all our eggs in a single monopile design. We aren’t putting all our eggs in the same geological and metocean conditions. Otherwise 100% correct 👍

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How is it even possible that these people don't know already how these things behave?

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Make sure you have plenty of landfill space available.

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Try not to think about this before sleeping

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Decommissioning and continual replacement costs are not mentioned by the 'cheap' wind power enthusiasts

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UK is also building Hinkley reactor and planning Sizewell Also solar PV & onshore wind Also efficiency Also storage from pumped hydro to various battery technologies Also HVDC interconnects There's no silver bullet

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