Southern Company didn’t
do the renewable energy study for Georgia
when Mark Z. Jacobson’s study showed
All U.S. east coast electricity could come from offshore wind 3 seasons out of 4.
Now somebody else has, including how to build offshore wind turbines
to withstand hurricanes.
Rob Gilhooly wrote for New Scientist 16 January 2013,
Japan to build world’s largest offshore wind farm,
The wind farm, which will generate 1 gigawatt of power once
completed, is part of a national plan to increase renewable energy
resources following the post-tsunami shutdown of the nation’s 54
nuclear reactors. Only two have since come back online.The project is part of Fukushima’s plan to become completely energy
self-sufficient by 2040, using renewable sources alone. The
prefecture is also set to build the country’s biggest
solar park.
The wind farm will surpass the 504 megawatts generated by the 140
turbines at the Greater Gabbard farm off the coast of Suffolk, UK
— currently the world’s largest farm. This accolade will soon
pass to the London Array in the Thames Estuary, where 175 turbines
will produce 630 megawatts of power when it comes online later this
year. The Fukushima farm will beat this, too.
How will these wind turbines work?