The Surprising Power of Floating Wind Turbines

[@ClimateAdam]

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[@billpapadopoulos8295]

I am currently studying about this subject this semester as a naval architect. We have a separate course about anchoring of offshore structures and floating wind turbines are the hottest thing right now! It's quite complicated engineering problem but we are making huge progress on this.

[@ClimateAdam]

so excited to see what gets developed over coming years!

[@AllAboutClimate]

Awesome Video Adam! I had the privilege of visiting a prototype floating turbine made by X1 Wind in Gran Canaria Last summer. It was awesome and used a unique tripod design, making it more stable. It's great to see a video giving this tech the attention it deserves and I love that we share this passion. Looking forward to more of your videos this year!

[@ClimateAdam]

I would looooove to climb up a floating wind turbine one day. would be a dream

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

I would argue that we shouldn’t be overly concerned with the cost of floating turbines (yea, weird coming from me of all people). Because Solar PV and traditional wind turbines are SO cheap compared to the costs of fossil fuel electricity (both internal and external) we save pretty much all the money that we need with just those two programs. We can roll a lot of that saved money into investments of tech like floating turbines, geothermal power, nuclear, etc which may not have as great of an ROI but they provide a strong backbone of energy. So these other sources of power are enablers which allow us to save all that money with PV and traditional wind! And the cool thing is that, if you read the book Drawdown, we STILL end up saving giant piles of cash even when you account for heavy investments in tech like this that doesn’t have a great ROI!

[@ClimateAdam]

I see where you're coming from in theory, but the truth is that the cheaper they are, the more we'll build! but given that they're not _ridiculously_ expensive even right now as they're just beginning to be built gives me a lot of hope that they'll become a pretty normal way of making electricity in the coming years and decades!

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

@@ClimateAdam yea it’s definitely extremely likely that their prices will go down in the future. I just bring it up cause I see a lot of people on KZbin trying to dismiss renewable tech out of hand because it’s “too expensive” currently. Obviously that’s not the angle that you’re taking, but I still always like to remind people that we need to look at the cost of renewable energy as a whole rather than individuals. Which allows us to take some losses on tech like this while production ramps up and we achieve economies of scale.

[@Dr.Gehrig]

Cool video Dr. Levy. I hope to see more videos from you profiling solutions. People really need to be reminded that we have the solutions now, and they keep on getting better. Your presentations are very succinct and memorable, that makes them quite effective at getting the word out.

[@reganovich]

Great to see Tears for Fears sharing such cool turbine tech info! Peace from Ireland bro

[@ClimateAdam]

Lolol glad to see we've got a fan of my early work in the comments!

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

@@ClimateAdam nice to see you've branched out. Really impressive.

[@David_Hyacinthe]

Floating Wind turbine seems to be a great idea ! One of the main argument against Offshore Wind Turbine I heard is the damage on the environment and biodiversity during the construction (vibrations and dust mostly). A floating wind turbine would solve this problem ?

[@ClimateAdam]

Interesting question! I'm not sure about impact during construction, but there would definitely be some environmental benefits. having them further from coasts would reduce impacts to birds, plus make them less of an eyesore to beach goers (though I personally love the sight of wind turbines, I accept not everyone shared my perspective!)

[@David_Hyacinthe]

@@ClimateAdam Thanks for your response and for your work !

[@shaunaburton7136]

I always wanted to learn more about this since hurricanes are getting more frequent and intense.

[@peterdollins3610]

The latest breakthroughs in Geothermals makes this technology the most exciting one for me.

[@dianewallace6064]

Very encouraging about floating wind turbines. Thank you!! Regarding Net Zero, I heard Katherine Hayhoe give a great analogy. If the atmosphere is a pool and water is greenhouse gases then we need to stop the flow coming out of the hose, we need to make the drain of effluent much bigger and we needs to learn to swim. The learning to swim is adaptation. My reference is Climate Emergency Forum channel's recent interview with Dr. Hayhoe at COP15 by Paul Beckwith.

[@ClimateAdam]

oo the filling up the bath (or glass I normally use) is great - but I love adding the swimming to it!

[@dianewallace6064]

@@ClimateAdam Thanks for reading our comments! It's nice to have that connection. I appreciate your time.

[@debbiet5130]

Thanks Adam. I didn't know about these-and my country (Scotland) has them!😁

[@ClimateAdam]

the first proper floaty wind farm is in Scotland! w00t for Scotland!

[@louishennick6883]

Do you think we could convert the structures of abandoned oil-rigs to off-shore-wind-turbines? As not to use up extra space and just for a good symbolic switch of energy

[@KarolaTea]

Sounds great job opportunities for people trained to work on offshore oil platforms :) Cool technology though! Until this video I didn't know that sea bed depth was an issue (or well, makes sense, but never thought about it) nor that there's already a solution to the problem.

[@zachb.6179]

When you said "isn't grounded at all" i thought you were gonna tell me they put turbines on blimps floating above cities with a power cable coming down :-)

[@ClimateAdam]

well......! e360.yale.edu/features/after-a-shaky-start-airborne-wind-energy-is-slowly-taking-off

[@ClimateAdam]

what are *YOUR* fave climate solutions??

[@ВераПономаренко-у1з]

Wetland restoration,green zones in cities, renewable energies, (i hate nuclear, sorry, im a renewabilist rather than pro-nuclear guy) and also... Fighting climate change deniers who are slowing the transition to a zero GHG world!😄 And I'm just 14, though on February 24 i would be 15, I'm very interested in environment and climate change topic, what sources you can recommend to me as climate scientist? (Yes, a f***ing teen who is NOT interested in tiktok and video games, but environment and climate change!🍃) And i also think if we PUT OUR MINDS, also have a heart (those big Coal, And Oil&Gas don't have heart- only greed for money and greenwashing), listen to scientists and activists, we could completely restore the Earth environment and probably repair the climate (we should somehow pull out those GHG, BUT ONLY WHEN ZERO GHG EMISSIONS ARE REACHED! (according to me), to achieve livable and thriving home for life. Sincerely your new subscriber Arcady.

[@ClimateAdam]

@@ВераПономаренко-у1з so many sources! things like carbon brief is very detailed and grist is very accessible. for more videos, check out youtubers like Simon Clark, zentouro or Ella Gilbert (all climate scientists!) and on insta / tiktok, I love the garbage queen! thanks for caring about climate, and welcome to the channel!

[@ВераПономаренко-у1з]

@@ClimateAdam Thank you very much!💗💚 Didn't though that you would reply😄 (But i have a little question, Imagine, it's 2050 and humanity achieved 0 GHG emissions, and later starts to restore them to preindustrial concentration, would global cooling have it's bad impacts, like now with global warming, or only good stuff would be here, or cooling would have consequences too?)

[@Cardioid2035]

Here’s my personal favourite solution to the bottomline issue we have here: Source: ‘’Pulling CO2 out of the air and using it could be a trillion-dollar business’’ VOX article by David Roberts. Rundown: The polluting petro-dollar structure of the global economy is not going anywhere and we can’t simply remove it. Ever wonder why green endeavours or green energy projects always fail? There’s no return on investment and since everyone eats, the economy must remain stable at all costs to ultimately avoid chaos. So herein lies the issue. There’s always going to be an inherent disconnect between economic prosperity and environmental sustainability based on the current gas/ coal energy infrastructure that has been established globally long ago. The value of currency is so intertwined with crude oil that Direct Air Capture (DAC) strategically implemented on a planetary scale is truly our last hope to bridge the gap between economic viability and environmental sustainability. Governments can create a market incentive to increase demand for captured carbon products such as bricks, polymers, plastics, pharmaceutical applications and even soda carbonization. Utilizing atmospheric Co2 could provide an incentive to roll out carbon capture and actually create revenue in the process. The biggest hurdle now is to acquire the necessary capital to undertake such a large scale DAC endeavour, while keeping the economy stable and everyone fed. Whoever controls the money controls the world, and that money depends on oil. If any of you like this idea check out that VOX article for more details and spread the idea!

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Well I for one want to get off fossil fuels as soon as absolutely possible and it's necessary for many reasons. The petro-State (and my govt who serves it; who has destroyed millions of lives in service to it) is currently causing massive global climate change and instability including warming. It's been an ugly era who's time I hope is close to an end.

[@Cardioid2035]

@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999 I definitely agree, but for the short term Direct Air Capture on a large scale should re-stabilize the climate by pulling mass amounts of C02 out of the atmosphere which is causing the current instability

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

@@Cardioid2035 it sounds like it could have exciting potential but I've heard that in practice it doesn't make much of a difference but ofc we're still on the forefront and I don't know that much about it

[@ingridzabel566]

Thanks for this video; it has buoyed up my mood.

[@ClimateAdam]

INGRID! 😂

[@distantmind956]

"Mindboggingly" New favorite word found. Anyway, thanks for the video Adam! Never stop! Now if just the Nimbys wouls shut the f up. My aunt claims to care about the climate a great deal, but for some reason she's also very anti wind. If it's on land, it's bad because it destroys nature, and if its offshore it's bad because it the soundwaves disturb marine life or whatever, or kill birds, produce microplastic, create a lot of waste or the ugly red lights or some other dumb reason (totally ignoring the fact that the fossil fuel industry scores way way way worse on all the areas she's using to condemn wind turbines) But all I'm hearing is "I'm perfectly okay with condemning my grandchildren to cook in an overheating world as long as I don't have to look at the things that might save them" whenever she opens her mouth on the matter. It's sickening. Specially since I've admired her and her family ever since I was a kid. Ever since I opened my eyes to climate change I've had to change a lot about the way I see a lot of things in the world.

[@johnnyokeeffe6577]

Great video Adam!

[@monikawiedmann8594]

It strikes me that companies producing renewable energy have been raking it in, since we are still being charged regular prices (set by the fossil fuel burning energy producers) for it, so they should be able to invest in these turbines without any problems.

[@thesilentone4024]

Better insulation to reduce energy demand in cities. Thirsty concrete in roads to reduce flooding and sand mining and reduce black ice on roads and reduce roads braking do to ice become the ice cant make enuff pressure to brake it.

[@ClimateAdam]

I actually made a vid about insulation a couple of months ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqLbk4Khq9yrjNE

[@alexsundberg5152]

I have a question. In the panic about climate change, we are adding more and more wind generators anywhere we can. This would include areas of onshore flow like the eastern Columbia river gorge in the Northwest US. There are literally hundreds of wind generators and more added every month. These generators, many on the mountain tops, extract energy from the wind (onshore flow) that moves weather from the Pacific coast inland to the high plateau. This is happening all over the country. More and more wind generators are being added, onshore and offshore, extracting massive amounts of energy from these rivers of air. Is this impacting our climate locally and worldwide? In our efforts to get rid of coal and oil and now even hydropower, we seem to be putting all our eggs in one basket. Nothing is free. Wind generation, the new panacea, must be impacting our climate to some degree. A look at the growth of wind generation worldwide makes me wonder, are we creating the next crisis?

[@juliane__]

I'm really sorry, but i can't agree, i like flying wind turbines even cooler! :D

[@ClimateAdam]

look, we can both agree that floating flying wind turbines would be ridonkulously cool

[@christianrobertdemassy900]

Would you do a video about the hockey stick controversy ?

[@MyJosh360]

Investigating dead whales near Maryland's wind turbines

[@salvatoreverde4167]

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[@ggb5583]

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