No place like Taiwan for offshore wind power?

Currently only Siemens Gamesa and Vestas serving offshore market in Taiwan.
All are Danish affairs, explaining the increase of Danish immigrants to TW in the past 3 years.

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Where do you see them?

Counting mantou is a slang doing something considered meaningless.
Throw salt into ocean or giving out explanation about English slang in an English speaking internet forum where majority of the members are fluent-if-not-native English speakers.

Mission accomplished.

I think it’s called that because in the military they used to serve nothing but mantou. Most people consider conscription to be a waste of time.

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That’d be “English slang” as spoken by Dr Fu Manchu, who did his doctorate in Edinburgh. I dunno where he did his National Service.

Without the Drs Mysterious Involvement, the chance of “English slang” featuring mantou would seem lower than the chance a randomly drawn bucket of sea water not having any salt in it.

Cor blimey, strike a light, forty phasand fevvers on a frush.

You can find them on the west coast, a lot in Yunlin/Changhua area as well as Taichung Port area.

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The Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms are scheduled to be fully operational by the end of the year.

  • 605 MW - Greater Changhua 1
  • 295 MW - Changhua 2a

Altogether 111 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbines.

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Formosa Plastics is planning “mini” nuclear plants. Will serve 1,000,000 people, with no nuclear waste problem.

Boy Taiwan’s got it all. Even sources I’ve never heard of.

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I heard they’ll sell this mini-nuke plants for home use. Look for them on Rakuten or yahoo Taiwan. Target price sub-NT$1000.

Yes you can integrate it with Amazon Alexa.

“Alexa, enrich uranium.”

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Micro nuclear fission is nothing new, but it’s ridiculous to claim it has no waste problem. Even if they are talking about micro thorium reactors, which they are not, we would still have nuclear waste that would last 500 years. It’s only better when you compare it with waste from uranium that would last over 20,000 years.

Anyway, the video asked why Formosa Plastics and Robert Tsao (UMC) are talking about it when it’s still illegal in Taiwan. Answer is, soon Taiwan won’t have a choice.

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Taiwan is now like a deer staring at headlights in regards to what to do with energy and now its much significantly higher costs.
Where is English Vegetable on the new energy crisis and energy security?
Oh, she doesn’t realize they’re both happening at the same time.

Here’s what South Korea just announced:

South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said July 5 that the country will build four more nuclear reactors by 2030 and extend the lifetimes of 10 aging reactors. In addition, the ministry will target having 30% of the country’s power generation by 2030 come from nuclear, versus 27.4% in 2021, Bloomberg reported July 4.

The move reverses former South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s nuclear policy, which had included a gradual phaseout of nuclear power. Seoul’s course change mirrors similar moves in France, Japan and the United Kingdom amid rising liquefied natural gas prices and growing concerns about energy security. For a country like South Korea, which has virtually no domestic energy resources, nuclear power and renewables have long been viewed as critical to energy security due to their limited exposure to international prices and inability to be cut off or blocked in the event of a major supply disruption. Those concerns have only grown in the last six months as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a global energy crisis unlikely to end anytime soon and as European buyers — now trying to reduce their imports of natural gas from Russia — and Asian buyers are engaged in growing energy competition over an LNG market under pressure.

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What do you think that will do to the price of uranium fuel rods? Taiwan already spends more than 10B NTD annually to import uranium fuel rods from the US (uranium mined in Australia, but processed into fuel rods in the US). All these new nuclear power plants in these US friendly countries are going to be importing uranium fuel rods from the US, since it’s probably a bad political move to buy them from elsewhere. With increased demand, uranium fuel rod price would likely be driven higher as well.

It also doesn’t solve Taiwan’s energy dependency issue, not to mention worsen the current nuclear waste problem.

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Exactly. There is no energy plan. Doesn’t matter whether nuclear or not.
Where’s the plan? Where’s the beef?

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In case of a Chinese blockade, the only independent base load energy would be geothermal, since even if we do harvest offshore natural gas or methane ice from the seabed, operation would probably be halted by the PLA navy.

truly is a stumper why people are so polarized and don’t want to develop more in house sustainably created energies regardless of of pro/anti nuclear opinions.

cancelling past promises (as per above post about korea) is just one reason shit doesn’t get done and progress is slow. round and round the hamster wheel we go.

Smart countries will develop breeder reactors.

I’m not against all nuclear enegy, but uranium fission has no place on a tiny earthquake prone, tsunami prone island.

Bbreeders reactors would be a way to put spent fuel rods to good use, or switch to thorium breeder reactors.