Interesting Links for 18-01-2022

[andrewducker]

UK Covid cases halve in a week, and Omicron is 'disappearing fast' across most of the UK

(tags:Pandemic UK GoodNews )

ScotWind offshore auction raises £700m - will have capacity of 25GW

(tags:Scotland windpower )

Israel Finds Fourth Covid Jab Is Ineffective

(tags:Pandemic vaccination Israel )

Turn your Wordle result into a cute building with the Townscaper converter

(tags:words architecture games )

Covid-19: Peak of viral shedding is later with omicron variant

(tags:pandemic virus )

Comments

Re: Offshore Wind

[danieldwilliam]

That may have been superceded by floating wind turbines.

Re: Offshore Wind

[andrewducker]

Good point! Would it still make sense to bring them together at an island and run power back in from there? Or is that just adding complication for no good reason?

I managed to miss a second Scottish floating windfarm going into operation in October:
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/10/19/worlds-largest-floating-offshore-wind-farm-fully-operational/

And plenty more news on that site:
https://www.offshorewind.biz/news/

Re: Offshore Wind

[danieldwilliam]

I think running them back to an island and then from the island to shore might build in a single point of failure compared to just running some cables from the individual windfarms to one or two coasts.

I see from the article you just send me that developers are expecting to be in operation around 2030 - which implies a 4GW per annum build speed.