Debate, Offshore | Offshore wind turbines: just an adventure?
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The chair of the Storting’s Oil and Energy Committee, Marianne Sivertsen Næss, suggests that this is Norway’s new industrial adventure. What is NOT said about wind turbine parks is climate / environmental pollution in large natural areas, ownership in tax havens, and lack of Norwegian labor.
Wind turbines can not be used in industry as a power supplier because it is an unstable in the power supplier. When used on the base, the supply of power will lead to the installation having to shut down sporadically.
Look at Denmark. There are 1500 wind turbines. In Denmark, 20 million euros were spent per. years on leaf replacement.
A study (?) From there shows that turbine blades on land have a lifespan of 5-7 years – before they have to be replaced, while offshore turbine blades lasted only 3-5 years.
A turbine wing is made of fiberglass reinforced with epoxy where epoxy is approx. 50% of the mass, fiberglass the rest. Epoxy contains 33% Bisphenol A, totaling 15% of the turbo blade. Bisphenol is classified as severely harmful to health and has been assessed as a possible link to many common diseases such as obesity, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and reproductive disorders.
In Denmark, 20% of the male population has fertility problems. A large majority of girls are born in Denmark. There are also a large number of wind turbines. Then the question of this substance in the finder turbine leaves and proliferation of this as a contributing cause.
Norway will establish offshore wind farms. Here the same problems apply as finder turbines on land, with the difference that here it is not humans, reindeer, elk, deer or small animals that will as in the first place which are filled with microplastic, fiberglass residues and Bisphenol A, but fish and everything life in the sea.
Calculations show a peeling of around 60kg per. turbine, pr. years, – of course somewhat variable depending on the length of the.
What about maintenance costs? What were they intended for? Is the maintenance cost included in the electricity price?
I do not know what the foundations of the offshore turbines will weigh, but ordinary foundations on land require 43 tonnes of reinforcing steel and 42 tonnes of concrete.
Are these figures included in the CO2 accounts?
Probably not!
The 10 largest companies that own wind farms in Norway are registered in tax havens.
The company structure is such as to create a license, agreements and rights. As a rule, it is such a company per wind turbine, and as a rule it has very low equity, so that there is not much money to lose in the event of bankruptcy, and the owners do not have to inject large funds into the monster profits.
When these companies change owners, it is less cumbersome than when land and property and general rights change owners. It’s just selling it, or parts of it. NVE – The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate approves as a pure routine, and does not even send the decisions out for consultation. That’s how Tellenes and Guleslettene went to the world’s largest fund, Blackrock, Buheii and Tysvær to Europe’s biggest tax fraudsters, the MacQuarie group, and most of the wind farms in Rogaland to mysterious Hyfe Holding with bank account in Luxembourg, and connections to Luxcara.
Will this also be the case with the offshore wind turbines?
The leader of the Storting committee says that offshore wind will provide clean and reasonable power to people and companies in the future. It is to distort Facts.
Example:
Owner of wind farm plot / area Buheii, Kvinesdal, Agder.
The electricity price for the month of April used to be from 6.66 (2019) to 49.78 (2020) øre for the five years from 2016–2020.
In the year 2021, they were 55.48 øre. Normal price now before the spring melting tends to be around 30 øre / KWH. This morning, after the wind power plant and the foreign cables are up, the price is 189 øre / KWH before taxes and fees. They do NOT pay taxes / fees, = DKK 0, –
So one may ask whether this will be an industrial adventure, or just an ADVENTURE?