Bowen announced offshore wind turbines for Illawarra.

The water depth means these turbines will be on huge floating pontoons moored to ocean floor.

These turbines are top heavy with lots of windage from turbine.

Anyone who has kept a boat on a mooring will know this is going to be very expensive with lots of ongoing costs.

It's a harsh environment they will be lucky to last half as long as onshore turbines.

It's a stupid idea much better to put them on Barrenjoey Head in Teal electorate.

Baronvontwit is as gullible as he is stupid. 

We can have the conversation about energy generation kill counts if you'd like.

Coal and Gas: A study by Benjamin K. Sovacool in 2013 estimated that fossil fuel energy sources, including coal and natural gas, cause about 5.2 fatalities per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity generated, primarily through pollution and habitat destruction.

Wind: The same study estimated wind energy causes about 0.27 fatalities per GWh, mostly from bird and bat collisions.

Sovacool looked at precisely 7 wind farms. All in the US.

"The above studies, while useful and important, nonetheless
suffer from three common problems: (1) they rarely compare
their results with studies of other wind farms to contextualize
their estimates; (2) most do not compare the possible avian
deaths from wind electricity with other sources, and when they
do, studies typically do not compare them to other energy sources;
and (3) none attempted to calculate the number of avian deaths
per kWh from energy sources so that more meaningful compar-
isons might be made between different forms of electricity supply.
3.1. Variation and small sample size
A majority of studies examined focused on individual wind
farms but did not attempt to compare results across many wind
farms or larger geographic areas. There are some notable
exceptions, many of which are cited in this study. Still, in an
evaluation of 616 studies on wind electricity and avian mortality
examined by the author, more than 510 (or 80% of the sample)
focused only on one or two wind farms. The problem with such
narrow sampling is that a great deal of variability in the amount of
avian death associated with particular wind farms exists, ranging
from 0 to almost 40 deaths per turbine per year (see Table 1)."

https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/contextualizing-avian-mortality.pdf

He complains of small sample size and then uses... a small sample size.

Baronvonrort wrote on Jun 30^th, 2024 at 12:02am:


The risk of bushfires offshore should not be taken lightly, you're right...

Baronvonrort wrote on Jun 19^th, 2024 at 5:29pm:



I don't think that would work.