No place like Taiwan for offshore wind power?

1 confirmed from radiation, 2,202 from evacuation.

6 with cancer or leukemia but are still hanging on.

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Not really following. 20k deaths if it was in taiwan and none if in japan? What do you mean?

Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farm has seen its first wind turbines put into service

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Forumosans working in the wind power here?

Cheers. Link from the article is interesting as well. Will look through it more over the coming weeks :slight_smile:

https://www.geipc.tw/LiveEnergy.aspx#

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Taiwan is behind on Tsai’s goal of 20% clean energy by 2025. Currently we’re at 8%.

On the other hand, Taiwan is ahead of Japan and Korea in offshore wind power development.

Government support is great (especially in Tainan) but there is a lot of local opposition to solar. That’s the way with all new industries.

Some places have dual use fields that result in triple victory (win-win-win). No idea what they’re talking about.

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Things will always be pushed back unless there is a diligent and absolute deadline. If coal and nuclear were set to, without possibility of backing out, be ceased within 10 or whatever years it would be done because we have to. But no one is laying down the law and being responsible for it. We have gotten used to a deadline being more like a suggestion. complacency / lack of responsibility remains status quo.

Energy security is every bit as important as the china threat or other immediate threats to taiwan such as environmental (eg water). They are all interconnected at the same time.

I guess we can at least do the usual “better than previous politicians” type applause and give them the yank they so desperately seek for not being quite as inept as the previous administration :slight_smile:

If one were to put a date on it and without buildin a new similar type of plant. What year would you say the taichung smoke stacks get turned off, or used for back up only?

Or unless it’s cheaper than the alternatives, which it might already be without existing subsidies. Fixing that seems like the obvious starting point, to me.

I’d say put a nuclear reactor on the Taichung smokestack and turn it into a nuclear plant, but that’s just pipe dream. Nobody wants to touch nuclear with a 10 foot pole.

That Taichung smokestack released far more radioactivity than Chernobyl while it’s in operation. What you don’t think coal dust is radioactive?

Opponents of fuel (coal, gas, oil) powered power plant will complain against the pollution caused.
Opponents of nuclear power plant will complain about the nuclear waste.
Opponents of hydroelectric power plant will complain about the effect on water ecosystem.
Opponents of solar power plant will complain about the side effect of PV panel manufacturing.
Opponents of wind power plant will complain about the dizzying noise, the annoying shade effect, the fact that it kills 2 birds per year and the cost of fiberglass blade recycle.

At the same time, the complainers cranking their AC to sub 20 on summer months.

Doing a half assed research, I conclude that wind power is the most dangerous of them all, with 4 complains compare to the other that has only 1 complain each.

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What the hell is “wave energy”?

The electricity created by wave movement.

Wind power utilize wind.
Hydroelectric utilize water flow.
Wave converter utilize ocean wave. Even for renewable, this is a bit out of mainstream.

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Dual use solar power is doing wonders for berry growers in the Netherlands and other European countries. The panels cuts down sun light and shields the berries from strong winds.

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You need to make sure the panel surface that facing sun doesn’t covered by the shrubberies or debris though.
When covered, there will be close to zero electricity generated.
One popular way in Japan, to use farm animals like goats for clearing the shrubs.

They better use underwater currents power.

But then you don’t have berries. No shrubs, no berries.

That’s a simple landscaping job.

They could put them in the arctic and have them maintained by squids?

In taiwan they just put them on the ground in food security lands and later let people compain why solar is shit and why food might be a future problem LOL!

If farming is the narrative about solar…2 words: fungi and fresh water aquaculture. There are FAR better installations than agriculture for farming, but its not bit pointless because the nareatives seem to be the extremes of either yes or no. When solar should just be one of many inputs to reduce coal, nuclear and other things we are slowly walking away from.

That is actually downside for land reserved for electricity generation of any kind. The land will unusable for the most part. Renewable installations in central South Taiwan sometimes done in waste land, like floodplains.

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