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Related: About this forumPower Plants Heading Out to Sea in Post-Fukushima Japan
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-09/power-plants-heading-out-to-sea-in-post-fukushima-japan.htmlAn artist's impression of the floating power plant by IHI Corp., Sevan Marine ASA and Siemens AG. The vessel would be one of the first of its kind, bobbing on a 106-meter (350-foot) in diameter cylindrical platform offshore.
One of the biggest hurdles to building new power plants in Japan is finding a place thats safe from earthquakes and tsunamis. That place may turn out to be 30 miles at sea.
Sevan Marine ASA (SEVAN), a Norwegian builder of offshore oil-drilling vessels, is proposing a $1.5 billion natural gas-fired power plant that will float on a cylindrical platform bigger than a football field moored off the Japanese coast.
Its one of several innovative efforts Japan is considering for generating electricity after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 prompted widespread public concern over how the country will produce electricity -- and where. Already, plans are being made to dot the coast off Fukushima with some of the largest floating wind turbines in the world.
We are now focusing on mainly floating offshore wind, but we want to push various types of technical development and research for floating power stations, said Toshimitsu Motegi, a member of Japans ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the former minister of economy, trade and industry.
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Power Plants Heading Out to Sea in Post-Fukushima Japan (Original Post)
xchrom
Sep 2014
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. Cyclone proof?
Surely they would not put a nuke plant out to sea??
FBaggins
(26,695 posts)2. It isn't a nuke plant.
But yes... something that large would be pretty safe in a hurricane at sea.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)3. awesome, more fossil fuels