Corrosion at the splash area of an offshore turbine.
Source: “Inspection Guidance for Offshore Wind Turbine Facilities”
Is this the future of Off-shore wind. This take after only a few years in service. Oil rigs are regularly brought inshore for routine maintenance which is not possible with the hundreds of turbines fixed to the sea bed. The saline environment that is the North Sea with the weather conditions prevailing there suggests that the cost of off-shore wind will only increase expotentially. A nightmare of our own creation.
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Nice dose of tinworm there.
Didn’t anyone bother telling the offshore wind brigade about corrosion?
They probably believed the paint salesmen
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The good news is that when they sink they will become good fish habitat.
That’s not a turbine. Turbine foundations are painted yellow, by regulation, as a navigational aid. And even before they sink they provide a pretty good fish habitat: http://www.ens.dk/sites/ens.dk/files/undergrund-forsyning/vedvarende-energi/vindkraft-vindmoeller/havvindmoeller/miljoepaavirkninger-3/Follow-up%20fish%20study%20Horns%20Rev_final%20report%20(2).pdf
Perhaps not one in English waters; none have been in situ long enough; but it was taken from a wind industry technical appraisal. As to Fish habitat, look to reports from the Kent fishermen where promised seafood nirvana has simply proved to be a desert. Reports to the EU fisheries committee have come to a similar conclusion. Whether it is the vibrations from installed turbines, low frequency noise or emf from the underground cables there is certainly a negative impact on fishing. A short resume from your report states “In general, and in contrast to the hypothesis that wind farms would attract pelagic and demersal fish species to the farm area, fewer fish of the different fish species were caught in the windfarm area after deployment”