California is planning floating wind farms offshore to boost its power supply – here’s how they work

While floating offshore wind farms are becoming a commercial technology, there are still technical challenges that need to be solved. The platform motion may cause higher forces on the blades and tower, and more complicated and unsteady aerodynamics. Also, as water depths get very deep, the cost of the mooring lines, anchors, and electrical cabling may become very high, so cheaper but still reliable technologies will be needed.…

Biden wanted a climate alliance with Europe. He’s getting a carbon trade war

It was inevitable that the relentless radicalisation of climate hysteria and protectionist carbon border taxes would ultimately lead to a global trade war and the self-destruction of the Western alliance.
Today, we are a step closer today to this geopolitical upheaval that is likely to unravel the international political order for good.…