Posted on 09/14/2014 2:44:47 PM PDT by dennisw
Germany’s flagship Bard 1 offshore wind farm has been described as “a faulty total system” as technical problems continue to plague the project, casting major doubts on the feasibility of large scale offshore projects.
The wind farm was officially turned on in August last year but was shut down again almost immediately due to technical difficulties that have still not been resolved – and now lawyers are getting involved.
The wind farm comprises 80 5MW turbines situated 100 km off the north German coastline. The difficulty facing engineers is how to get the electricity generated back to shore. So far, every attempt to turn on the turbines has resulted in overloaded and “gently smouldering” offshore converter stations.
Built at a cost of hundreds of millions and costing between €1 and €2 million a day to service, the project is estimated to have cost €340 million in lost power generation over the last year alone. And if the problems with the technology are deemed not to be the fault of the operator, German taxpayers will be on the hook for the running and repair costs, thanks to the German Energy Act 2012.
Understandably, the project’s investors are becoming increasingly nervous, which is why lawyers are now scrambling to pin the blame elsewhere. According to the German magazine Speigel “everything has turned to the question of who is responsible for the fiasco – and the costs.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
German taxpayers on the hook...It’s NOT me for a change!
“Understandably, the project’s investors are becoming increasingly nervous, which is why lawyers are now scrambling to pin the blame elsewhere.”
No, the investors who got in after the initial investors took their money and ran are getting nervous.
There is some german word that exists my feelings of watching this from afar, while drinking a beer with a slightly smug smirk of satisfaction...darn, what is the word.....
So much for German engineering.
Just use high energy lasers. Piece of cake.(in my minds eye)
Schadenfreude.
And this is what Owe’Malley wants to bring to Maryland and its coast.
I’ll bet some Polish saboteurs were behind it all!
Cheney’s wind machine.
Bush’s fault.
Ted Kennedy was right not to allow the construction of a “wind farm” off Nantucket - but of course, for all the wrong reasons.
Now Ted is dead, so the last major voice against wind farms that would have any impact on the actual construction has been silenced.
The “whop-whop-whop” sound of those turbines turning in the wind has the probability of driving men mad.
My comment from another thread on this issue;
“Here’s a very important point from the article. The power generated is not usable at this time, and no answer is in sight.
“In contrast to a steady one-source input, like from a nuclear or coal-fired power plant, a wind farm has many smaller sources with the output of each constantly varying with conditions like wind direction, wind speed and blade angle. Such variations lead to destabilizing energy-oscillations in the whole system that cannot be handled by the current converters. To make matters worse, the engineers have yet to fully understand the nature of the problem and to come up with any solution for it.”
The Ultimate Dying Machine.
Michael Mann’s fault.
Large Batteries make swell flux capacitors.
Well, in fairness...
They had to build it quickly. Global Warming might have evaporated the ocean before the could figure out the power transmission problem.
There are wind farms all over the world. Do they all have this problem?
Have they published the totals of rare German birds killed or orphaned by this ‘Green Machine’? I didn’t think so.
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