Comments on Giant offshore wind farms to supply half of UK power

• Giant offshore wind farms to supply half of UK power
• It could mean that wind farms would become visible from almost every point of Britains coast. Some developers have made clear that they would like to see a forest of turbines stretching up the North Sea, whose shallow waters make it relatively cheap and easy to develop.
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  Love to see it happen.
  They seriously need to built the supergrid.
  http://www.airtricity.com/ireland/wind_farms/super …

  The future electricity supply of Europe should stand on three pillars, Wind power from the west, Solar from the south and nuclear (eastern Europe for preference) but probably widely dispersed.
  This is important stuff - the cost of a day without electricity would pay for thousands of megawatts of renewable power.
  We should be doing this BEFORE the cheap oil, runs out. By the time we are down to burning bad coal to keep the lights on it will be too late.
  I wish I had more confidence in our politicans.

  Great idea but it will not work because what happens if the wind dies? The entirely of the UK would go through rolling blackouts. I’m definitely agree we NEED renewable energy but a grid can’t depend on 50% wind energy and still be considered reliable.

  Dugg up for correct use of “offshore”!

  Not sure why the IT sweatshops in land-locked Bangalore refer to themselves as being “offshore”. Oh wait, I think that statement just answered my question…..

  If it brings down the price of electricity in the UK I am all for it.

  How much does one of these bad boys cost? Never mind. Doesn’t matter.
  Tell you what. Give me an entire ocean of them.
  I’m using taxpayer money. It’s like real money, but not mine! So it is sorta’ free in that sense.

  Then when the rest of the world causes the ocean levels to rise, their wind farm will be under that water.