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Why Did We Wait So Long for Wind Power?

Yeul

A bunch of academic hippies were working on windmill power in the Netherlands in the 1970s. But with cheap and unlimited LNG it was considered a technical curiosity.

Smart people did predict that gas would eventually run out but by then the country was supposed to have a dozen nuclear reactors like Japan. Now we can't even build one- and it's not even because of the 40 billion € cost but because of bureaucracy and NIMBYism.

The best thing about wind turbines in the North Sea? Nobody lives there.

yread

Part 2 which is more about the economics and engineering is here https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-did-we-wait-so-lo...

and Part 3 about offshore here https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-did-we-wait-so-lo...

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