Denmark Plans To Build Artificial Island That Will Serve As Energy Hub For Wind Power

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The Danish government has approved a plan to construct what it’s billing as the world’s first artificial island that will serve as a wind energy hub in the North Sea, as the Scandinavian nation seeks to speed up its transition to an all-renewable energy grid.

The island – which will be at least 1.3 million square feet in size, or as big as 18 soccer fields, making it the biggest construction project in Danish history – will be located 50 miles from the west coast of the Jutland peninsula and will be owned by a partnership of the Danish state and private companies.

The energy hub – which will collect electricity from at least 200 offshore wind turbines surrounding the island — will initially distribute enough green energy to supply electricity to 3 million households in Denmark and neighboring countries (including Holland and Germany), eventually expanding to 10 million households as the island’s construction is extended in various stages.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/palash...-as-energy-hub-for-wind-powe/?sh=6fbe453c4984
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Interesting that Denmark is not very concerned about frozen wind turbines.

Snow, wind and fog to grip Denmark

Much of the country to experience snow storm conditions with lots of wind and low visibility

February 15th, 2021 9:00 am

If you thought that the Danish winter wonderland was coming to an end, think again.

According to the national weather forecasters, DMI, the next day or two will bring ample snow, wind and even thick fog to much of the country.

The stormy conditions are set to begin in the western part of Denmark this morning before moving across to the eastern areas during the afternoon.

https://cphpost.dk/?p=122389
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LOL imagine thinking building an island will cut down on the supposed carbon footprint. How can you believers not see this giant contradiction? You guys are braindead
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the Scandinavians are not only on the way to cheap cheap cheap bountiful power, they're already wealthier, happier, and healthier than Americans, by far
 
BartenderElite said:
In the future, people will genuinely wonder why any actions that merely attempted to help transition from fossil fuels were ridiculed by some.
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Hopefully people in the future will wonder why the hell those of today didn't just go nuclear and be done with it. Nuclear is so much more efficient, environmentally friendly, and clean compared to wind and solar there's no comparison.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Bullshit. It is the safest, cleanest, and most environmentally friendly method to produce electricity there is. It puts solar and wind to shame.
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No. My comment was 100% fact.

We don't have a long-term plan for either waste disposal or plant maintenance/contingency.

Nuclear is generationally irresponsible. This is just factual.
 
Hello T. A. Gardner,

T. A. Gardner said:
Hopefully people in the future will wonder why the hell those of today didn't just go nuclear and be done with it. Nuclear is so much more efficient, environmentally friendly, and clean compared to wind and solar there's no comparison.
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I totally agree.

I was once completely against nuclear, and for good reason. The dangers and costs seemed to outstrip the resultant power.

I have changed my mind.

Recent technological developments are very encouraging. The Bill Gates project yielded very promising results. His team came up with something called a Traveling Wave Reactor. It is all upside and no downside.

Get this: It uses the spent fuel from old tech reactors. Does anybody realize how huge that is.

And it gets better. The TWR can't have a melt-down. It is completely different technology from all current US reactors. It requires no auxiliary power for cooling. If left unattended, it will simply shut down. It cannot have a runaway reaction because of the way the fuel is designed.

This is safe nuclear technology.

And it does not generate tons of depleted fuel which creates a dangerous storage problem.

This technology apparently solves all of the problems with nuclear.

We should adopt it.

The reason it has not been implemented is because all of our nuclear regulatory requirements are written to oversee the old-tech reactors. There is no way to fill out the forms to even apply for a permit with this technology. Our existing laws have no way to approve one of these reactors. Bill Gates went to China to set up the first one. China has no problems with a slow-moving Congress. If China wants to do something, and the communist dictator says do it, it happens. A communist dictatorship does have certain advantages over a slow moving Democratic Republic.

That is where I lost contact with what happened next. For some reason, China decided to end the project before it got up and running.

(paused for research of what happened)

OK, it appears that Trump killed the project because he hates China:

"In September 2015 TerraPower and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop a TWR. TerraPower planned to build a 600 MWe demonstration Plant, the TWR-P, by 2018–2022 followed by larger commercial plants of 1150 MWe in the late 2020s.[15] However, in January 2019 it was announced that the project had been abandoned due to technology transfer limitations placed by the Trump administration.[16]"

Traveling Wave Reactor

I believe we should pursue this.
 
Hello BartenderElite,

BartenderElite said:
No. My comment was 100% fact.

We don't have a long-term plan for either waste disposal or plant maintenance/contingency.

Nuclear is generationally irresponsible. This is just factual.
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That was once true but has changed.

I am liberal. I was against nuclear power. I now support it if it is done with this new safe technology which also solves the nuclear waste problem.
 
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