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Offshore Wind’s Google Boost KQED’s Climate Watch
Filed under: Alex Monroe | Tags: boost, climate (3), google, kqed's (3), offshore, watch (6), wind's | December 21st, 2010
Offshore wind of Google improve KQED climate watch
This Nysted wind farm, off the coast of Denmark. The us is not offshore wind generation.
In the proposed: the coastal, energy, technology
Mark: 33×20, Atlantic monsoon, vader corner connection, Google, miller, wind Google make a billion-dollar wager offshore wind – but not in this coast.
When Google to announce that it is in nearly 40 percent of equity underwater 50 billion dollars of the transmission line service offshore wind farm have not built that no one even seem to feel guilty. Such effects are Google’s permission in renewable energy projects.
According to reports, cable will run for 350 miles, about 20 miles from the Atlantic coast, connect to Internet someone pushing – - – the wind turbines to mainland China, to every one. It won’t even only offshore wind farm is approved, so far from the federal department of internal, to the wind project – contested Angle, Massachusetts.
When confidence apparently points windy east coast development, hoping for a similar ocean engineering California more exercise. In an interview for the upcoming story KQED 33 x 20 series, Ryan wiser, research wind Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory, describes the offshore development system and prospects the California coast, meanwhile, “low.”
“We have deep, deep water from rope, said a recent report who co-authored the wind in American development, points out the Pacific coast engineering challenges and related costs involved.” An offshore wind engineering cost is about twice the onshore project, “said more intelligent.” So, if you have the land resources, still not be clear that I, why anyone would going abroad, as long as the land resources from shi, the licensing and transmission opinions. “
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