Report: Offshore Wind Power Capacity To Boom In The Next Six Years

[Fledermaus]

Investment in offshore wind power is expected to surge in the next several years, according to a report from Pike Research. As a result, total installed power generation capacity is projected to increase by a factor of 17 between now and 2017, rising from 4.1 GW of installed capacity to 70.1 GW by the end of the forecast period.

"Some of the world's best wind resources are located offshore," says Peter Asmus, a senior analyst at Pike Research. "Often, these high-potential areas are in shallow ocean waters relatively close to urban population centers. Interest in freshwater offshore wind is also picking up, especially in the Great Lakes in the United States and Canadian Midwest."

Although Europe has been operating wind turbines offshore for close to a decade, Pike Research's market forecast shows that China's offshore wind market will pull even with Europe's largest national leaders by 2017.

http://www.nawindpower.com/naw/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.7764

[NNadir]

1. Oh goody, more useless greasy junk in the ocean.

[kristopher]

4. Don't worry, the nuclear industry assures us there is no problem with dumping in the ocean...

...TEPCO revealed for the first time Thursday that between April 1 and April 6 highly contaminated water containing around 5,000 terabecquerels of radioactive substances leaked from its No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture into the sea.

...During the six-day leak, some 520 tons of highly radioactive water is believed to have flowed into the Pacific at a rate of about 4.3 tons per hour, but being that from late March radioactivity in the sea was still evident, the toxic spill could have been far larger, experts said.

...As the nuclear crisis rumbles on, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano ordered the health ministry to check women's breast milk for traces of radioactive substances, following a citizen's group saying that four women living near Tokyo had produced breast milk containing small amounts of radioactive iodine-131.

Edano played down the issue saying that he gave the order to the health ministry to appease apprehensive mothers.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-04/21/c_13839934.htm

[NNadir]

5. Actually, kiddie, Denmark is drilling for OIL in the North Sea right NOW.

Oil kills people, um, constantly, and doesn't require a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami to kill people.

The number of dumb anti-nukes who understand scientific units is same as it ever was, zero. Traces of radioactivity are found in all breast milk in all species, because, um, potassium is found in breast milk.

Since every single anti-nuke is scientifically illiterate, they confuse risk with certainty.

Over 5,000 people have died since yesterday from um, air pollution, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs313/en/index.html">according to the World Health Organization, 34 of them in the time it took to write this post.

What's the theory in the anti-science camp, that dangerous fossil fuel waste is not present in the breast milk and other foods everywhere on this planet?

I see.

I covered risk analysis elsewhere: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/09/19/903294/-Post-Chernobyl-Radionuclide-Distributions-in-an-Austrian-Cow">Post-Chernobyl Radionuclide Distributions in an Austrian Cow.

Let me see if I've got this straight: More than 25,000 people died from non-nuclear causes in a tsunami - of a type that will certainly be much worse as climate change worsens - and your chief concern is whether breast milk contains traces of radioactivity?

Got it...

You can't make this stuff up.

Thanks for sharing.

[Fledermaus]

8. What has Fukushima done for the ocean?

[flamingdem]

2. This is the way to do it

They will be beautiful compared to nuke plants, and you can still swim nearby without being fried.

[kentauros]

6. One of the best ways is deep offshore wind.

The kind being studied to be implemented soon is putting up turbines on tension-leg floating platforms. This is a technology developed and used for decades very successfully by the offshore oil industry. What a great way to turn that around into something low-impact on the environment in so many ways. They do have to be anchored, but that's less of a footprint than the ones closer to shore on permanent structures.

[Fledermaus]

7. They can attract fish as well, They can create a small artificial reef.

[kristopher]

3. I'm confident we can count on Germany to be part of the expansion.

The demand thie will create on the manufacturing and installation infrastructure is going to provide a major lift to the industry over the 2017 horizon also.