Swedish developer Eolus Vind has announced plans to develop an offshore wind farm in Sweden’s Gulf of Bothnia with a capacity of up to 1.7GW.

  • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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    311 months ago

    I am allways concerned about off shore power, it gives a huge opening to a foreign actor to stealthily attack them under water…

    But as long as they wont replace existing powerplants and just export the surplus, I am fine with it.

    • @mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      They aren’t just towers in the dark. These things have all sorts of sensors on them. I doubt even a submarine is going to stealthily destroy these.

      The power grid has way, way more weaknesses that would be way more impactful dont require a submarine to execute. Capitalism has guaranteed we have basically zero spare parts for large transformers. A single person can easily destroy these and do more damage in a war time scenario.

    • @lntl@lemmy.mlOP
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      211 months ago

      If I sabotaged your offshore power, I’d say that I didn’t and have my navy produce a report that concluded that whales did it.

  • @AntY@lemmy.world
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    211 months ago

    Oh, how lovely. More power plants where we already produce almost all power in Sweden.