{"id":286700,"date":"2023-11-05T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=286700"},"modified":"2023-11-05T17:08:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:08:51","slug":"cfact-to-boem-oregons-floating-wind-experiment-likely-to-topple-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=286700","title":{"rendered":"CFACT to BOEM: Oregon\u2019s \u201cfloating wind\u201d experiment likely to topple over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The principal reason that there are no commercially viable, floating wind facilities that exist in
the world today is because the cost to build, operate and maintain them is simply too exorbitant.
Each turbine requires a massive \u201cfloat\u201d to support the turbine tower. Each tower float must be
moored to the bottom in all directions so that it does not blow over.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – This Oct. 30, 2002 file photo shows a speed boat passing by offshore windmills in the North Sea offshore from near Esbjerg, Denmark. On Wednesday Feb. 5, 2014, Oregon’s Governor, John Kitzhaber and other officials announced plans to develop a similar farm, as the West Coast\u0092s first offshore wind energy farm. (AP Photo\/Heribert Proepper, file)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From \u00a0CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) recently weighed in on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management\u2019s (BOEM) proposal to site two \u201cWind Energy Areas\u201d (WEA) off the coast of Oregon.  President Craig Rucker, who submitted CFACT\u2019s official comments, noted \u201cBOEM should not create administrative \u201cWind Energy Areas\u201d because the technology being deployed, namely floating wind turbines, have not yet been proven economically viable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rucker went on to note that, to date, the 88 MW Hywind Tampen facility in the North Sea is the only major floating wind project in the world, and it merely services two offshore oil rigs.  To put faith in a technology that has yet to prove itself scalable to service hundreds of thousands of homes and business is foolish and needs more time.  In addition, the costs are likely to be substantively higher than for turbines planted into the seabed, Rucker adds, and will require the construction of specialized vessels that are not even in existence yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read the CFACT\u2019s official comments in their entirety,\u00a0click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n