{"id":229441,"date":"2010-01-26T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-2442510211002453186"},"modified":"2010-01-26T00:22:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T05:22:54","slug":"there-is-offshore-wind-powered-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/229441","title":{"rendered":"There is (offshore wind powered) light at the end of the tunnel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome a Paris has a post at TOD on some of the issues involved in constructing offshore wind farms &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/europe.theoildrum.com\/node\/6154\">There is (offshore wind powered) light at the end of the tunnel!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I went on a visit of the port site in Zeebrugge where the foundations for the Belwind offshore wind farm (the financing of which I worked on) have been stored before their installation and wanted to give you a glimpse of the kind of logistics that entails and what kind of problems can happen (and how they are solved).<\/p>\n<p>Follow me below for a tour of a small bit of Europe&#8217;s fastest growing heavy industry.<\/p>\n<p>As a quick reminder, there are 3 main types of foundations for offshore turbines: monopiles, gravity-based, and jackets\/tripods. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/europe.theoildrum.com\/node\/6154\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/offshorewind.net\/Images\/Foundations\/TodaysFoundations.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-2442510211002453186?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L305fr4sGcRcuwJIln2od21K54M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L305fr4sGcRcuwJIln2od21K54M\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L305fr4sGcRcuwJIln2od21K54M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L305fr4sGcRcuwJIln2od21K54M\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome a Paris has a post at TOD on some of the issues involved in constructing offshore wind farms &#8211; There is (offshore wind powered) light at the end of the tunnel!. I went on a visit of the port site in Zeebrugge where the foundations for the Belwind offshore wind farm (the financing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}