I did my fair share of fishing off Long Island and the Jersey shore. We preferred reefs, wrecks, and drifting. If you're interested in the complaints and problems the Long Island fisherman have with the wind farms there are a lot of articles about it on the web.
I think those are all climate models estimates? Anyways I'm sure the trend is reasonable, and given that until recently most of the UK had no wish for AC in the summer and they've got 14-16 hours of day light as well, so they should need less power in the summer.... I think to that offshore is worth a bit more as the UK could have all its good onshore sites filled up pretty easily. Some areas should be left mostly clear of windfarms.
They are measurements made at different points in the North Sea as part of a wind pattern study.
Well, the trend is pretty similar to what we see in Ontario, wind CF craps the bed in the summer, has better performance during the winter, but still exits the picture during extreme cold events.
Yes, their lack of AC use is a big component of why they so use much less electricity per capita than we do. The others are that they use gas for many things we don't at the same scale (cooking, dryers...etc) and their electricity prices are about 5x higher than ours, so there is less incentive to try and electrify things.
The UK has an onshore wind moratorium (due to NIMBYism) which is why the focus has been on more expensive offshore. As I noted, the 10% bump in CF doesn't justify the 100% increase in cost, and that's why the industry appears to be stalling.
Certainly possible. France's decarbonization success had nothing to do with climate change, just like Ontario's. We pursued fossil alternatives for energy security reasons.
Yeah, a lot of this can be true. We used to fish the Ambroise Tower outside of NY Harbor as a 100% sure way to catch bluefish any time of day.
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