Comments on: Flaw in EU Offshore Turbines Makes Them Slide Off Their Bases http://inhabitat.com/flaw-in-eu-offshore-turbines-makes-them-slide-off-their-bases/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Mon, 20 May 2013 06:38:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: hop http://inhabitat.com/flaw-in-eu-offshore-turbines-makes-them-slide-off-their-bases/comment-page-1/#comment-221651 hop Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:50:16 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=111614#comment-221651 Are you serious? How is this a story? This article implies that somehow a fuckup in the mixture of the concrete for the bases of the windmills puts the turbines themselves in a questionable light. Really? Even with a naive back-of-the-envelope calculation of the numbers within this very article, it doesn't make sense: Britain alone is investing 150 billion dollars within the next 10 years, yet a maybe-6-months retrofit that may cost Europe as a whole 20 million carries a "mighty hefty price tag?" One sum is .0133 _percent_ of the other, for crying out loud! Seriously? Quote the referenced article "[...] and may not even require action [...]" Nothing to report, move along. Are you serious? How is this a story?

This article implies that somehow a fuckup in the mixture of the concrete for the bases of the windmills puts the turbines themselves in a questionable light. Really?

Even with a naive back-of-the-envelope calculation of the numbers within this very article, it doesn’t make sense:

Britain alone is investing 150 billion dollars within the next 10 years, yet a maybe-6-months retrofit that may cost Europe as a whole 20 million carries a “mighty hefty price tag?” One sum is .0133 _percent_ of the other, for crying out loud! Seriously?

Quote the referenced article “[...] and may not even require action [...]”

Nothing to report, move along.

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