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Related: About this forumSee What Wind Turbine Assembly Would Look Like on Humboldt Bay, Courtesy of This Presentation From the Harbor District
From Lost Coast Outpost 7/25/24
Includes a 54 minute video and links to earlier articles on the evolving project.
See What Wind Turbine Assembly Would Look Like on Humboldt Bay, Courtesy of This Presentation From the Harbor District
In about six years time, massive floating wind turbines nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower could line the shores of the Samoa Peninsula.
At a special meeting on Tuesday, staff with the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District unveiled a draft simulation showing how the Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal the staging and integration facility where the gigantic wind turbines components would be fully assembled would transform our view of the bay.
The floating turbines slated for the Humboldt Wind Energy Area, located roughly 20 miles west of Eureka, would be among the largest in the world, according to Harbor District Development Director Rob Holmlund. Each turbine tower would be mounted on a floating triangular platform, itself measuring 100 feet tall and up to 425 feet long per side. The turbine would stand at roughly 1,000 feet about the size of the Eiffel Tower from the ocean surface to its wing tips. Each blade is as long as a football field.
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Once the heavy-lift terminal is fully operational, which could be as soon as late 2029, Holmlund said the facility would have the capacity to assemble two turbines per week. The turbines will hang out in wet storage for an undetermined amount of time until theyre ready to be towed out to sea.
From there [the turbines] can either go to Morro Bay, Oregon, or the Humboldt lease areas, Holmlund said. Once it leaves Humboldt Bay, thats the end of our part of the project.
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With Californias offshore renewable energy goals, as well as Oregon and Washington, its likely that there will be multiple decades of construction of wind turbines [in Humboldt Bay], Holmlund said. In addition, wind turbines that are already out in the ocean will need to be towed back into the bay periodically for maintenance. It will be an ongoing project.
It can also be used for other projects in the future.
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https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/jul/25/offshore-wind-simulation/
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Blues Heron
(6,073 posts)hunter
(38,682 posts)These things are vile and will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels.
CentralMass
(15,421 posts)hunter
(38,682 posts)Like most wind projects these will serve mostly as greenwash for the fossil fuel industry, especially the natural gas industry.
The wind energy industry isn't economically viable without fossil fuels and the gas industry knows that.
I write about this issue frequently here and post some of it in my journal.
Here's one of my recent posts:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127173952