Our carbon offsetting partner Terrapass recently posted this...
The UK government recently issued licenses for a staggering amount of offshore wind generation capacity:
While the Round 3 project to build 29 gigawatts (GW) by 2020 is a challenge equivalent to building eight Channel Tunnels in 10 years and requires a step-change in technology, it is achievable, Benj Sykes, Senior Technology Acceleration Manager, told reporters…
It would require setting up every year about 500 turbines — which are taller than the 180-meter “Gherkin” building in London — by around 2013, compared with around 280 achieved last year, and accelerate the speed to about 1,000 by 2019.
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