Boris and Wind Power.

Hi

Ever the optimist, Boris has a plan for offshore wind farms to generate the electricity for all UK homes by 2030.

A technical view,

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/boris-jo...stry-1.1504390

It seems to me he is setting himself up to fail again, much like World Beating Track and Trace.

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You can bet the horrible things won't be in his back yard either.

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These photos were taken down at the harbour when sections of the main body were being unloaded. Then trying to get the wing arms through the narrow streets.
You don't actually realise just how enormous they are untill you see them like this.

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Wind farms are all well and good as long as the wind is blowing, but what then?

We really need to build more nuclear power stations before it's too late, when everyone has an electric car and power cuts result as a consequence.

If the Frogs can do it, so can we.

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Thanks for that interesting article Swimmy, and l agree with you
about Boris, l think he should be put on a course of tranquilizers
for all our sakes??
It seems we are good at starting projects but unfortunately the
rest of the uk seems unable to keep up with his over active
imagination??
We allready have at least 4 major unfinished projects in the pipeline?
1/ Crossrail! 2/ HS2 ! 3/ Heathrow Extension ! 4/Atomic Power
Stations !( at least two)??
All these projects suffer from the same malady of being unable to
keep to the quoted price !
Sad to say uk will never realise its potential as it seems its population
is no longer either willing or able to do what is necessary ??
Meantime the list of ""projects" gets ever larger in Boris's
imagination such as the Scotland/ ireland bridge etc !!

Donkeyman! 🤔🤔🤔

PS. finish or cancell before starting any thing new!! Start by
finishing crossrail; Cancel heathrow; Cancel HS2; FInish atomic
power stations!!

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Read very carefully what BoJo actually said.

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Boris has promised to quadruple the amount of offshore wind capacity in the UK electricity system in less than a decade, from 10GW today to 40GW by 2030. That would be enough green electricity to power every UK home, officials have calculated.

Most experts agree that getting to 40GW of offshore wind is ambitious, but achievable.

After all, the UK was one of the pioneers of offshore wind, becoming one of the first countries in the world to put turbines out to sea in december 2000. Since then, dozens of offshore wind farms have sprung up around the UK coastline, getting bigger and more powerful with each deployment. That means the technological know-how exists to build out offshore wind at this scale.

And the speech from the pm suggests there is now strong political backing for the industry, a crucial component for attracting private investment in these schemes. “We can now say with confidence that offshore wind is really going to be the backbone of the energy system that we will have in the UK,” Chris Stark, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change said. “It’s really significant to have this kind of political commitment.”

The cost of offshore wind is now so cheap it does not need direct subsidy from the taxpayer. But in the UK, most projects need a Government-backed contract to reassure developers their expensive investment will pay back.
Government will need to set out a medium-term strategy for backing all the schemes before 2030 to drive development, Rob Gross, director of the UK Energy Research Centre said. “We need to roll out enough of these future contracts to ensure that investors have the confidence to build the projects.”

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The UK faces a race against time to upgrade its ports to prepare for the arrival of offshore turbines as big as London’s Shard, said Renewable UK’s policy lead Rebecca Williams. “The size of these turbines has increased exponentially over the years,” she said. “We need ports that are able to deal with those really large structures…So it’s crucial that we get the ports upgraded as part of this.” The Prime Minister today committed £160m to upgrading UK ports, but there is little detail on how this money will be used.

Mr Johnson said he wants the UK to be the ‘Saudi Arabia’ of offshore wind – in other words for Britain to lead the way internationally with this technology. But it will face some stiff competition.
Already Germany and Denmark have built formidable offshore wind manufacturing industries, a part of the puzzle where the UK has lagged, Dr Gross from UKERC pointed out. “Britain has been a leader in constructing offshore wind farms, but it has not been a leader in wind turbine technology development,” he said.
China has also started investing heavily in offshore wind, spotting an opportunity to lead the world one of the energy industries of the future. “It’s going to be a competitive marketplace,” Dr Gross warned.

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That is a challenge, how the offshore wind power will be used. The Prime Minister said it will be enough power to fuel every home in the UK, but wind turbines do not equal a steady supply of electricity.

Instead, grid operators will have to figure out how to use this intermittent power as efficiently as possible. That might mean instructing electric vehicles to charge up or paying households more to use power during windy weather, for example. It could also mean using excess electricity to create ‘green hydrogen’, which could be used to power lorries and planes or heat homes in the coming years.

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No he didn't. Read very carefully what BoJo said.