Wind Farms Take Root Out at Sea - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“If you want to do wind on a big scale with power plants based on wind, you need to go offshore,
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Wind farms are no longer engineering experiments or small pilot schemes. They have grown very large, to the point where they are of the same scale as gas- or coal-fired power stations.
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Siemens figures there are about 3.3 gigawatts of offshore wind power connected to the grid in Europe. That is similar in size to a large contemporary nuclear power station.
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