Ship hits the Fan and evidence wind farms attract more than birds

I’ve wondered about the maintenance for wind turbines that are at sea. You can watch the videos (I believe someone posted on here) of them catching fire, on land. You would think salt spray would cause significant damage to these things, which include keeping them adequately lubricated…..not including ships ;)
 
OllieC said:
I’ve wondered about the maintenance for wind turbines that are at sea. You can watch the videos (I believe someone posted on here) of them catching fire, on land. You would think salt spray would cause significant damage to these things, which include keeping them adequately lubricated…..not including ships ;)
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There are a couple of wind projects in the waters off of Long Island, NY. Two are active, with the state having created a a bunch of lease areas.

My neighbor's son went to SUNY Maritime, and is now working on the service ships going out to the wind turbines. He's making BANK on these boats. They have a couple of different types of service boats including crew transfer vessels that nose up to the turbine bases, and service operation vessels that can lower piles to the sea floor and jack itself up.

The turbines are designed for offshore operations, so I'd think they were designed to withstand ocean elements. Although the future of the GE's large 18 MW turbine is in doubt, which would be a big problem for the capacity of the wind farms.

My town is actually the beneficiary of the wind farm projects. Port Jefferson is the deep water port being used for the support vessels so that's driving some economic activity and jobs. And second, another area of town is the on-shore connection point for the power cable. Town of Brookhaven is getting paid millions for it. Its going to help offset $30 million revenue drop when our landfill closes in a few years (one of the few landfills on the island).


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Pirate Lady said:
Many landfills in the North east are out of room. They cant haul it offshore to dump
Like NY/NJ used to so needed alternative. CSX is making a fortune hauling the crap south to Alabama area. Converted all those useless coal cars to waste cars. Keeps my pension funded.
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We haven't buried raw garbage in our landfill in years. It get hauled to a waste to energy incinerator, then the ash is hauled back and landfilled. I wonder if that ash could be safely dumped at sea? Its going to have to go somewhere.
 
Pirate Lady said:
From what i read, unless you were in the Navy, they get special dispensation, it is very difficult to get a permit to dispose of human ashes at sea.
So a landfill worth of ash probably isn’t going to happen.
But I very well could be wrong, don’t know for sure.
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Ash is used extensively in cement mixes. Pretty much all of the fly ash from power plants is used in concrete - possibly the ash from landfill incineration also....
 
Pirate Lady said:
From what i read, unless you were in the Navy, they get special dispensation, it is very difficult to get a permit to dispose of human ashes at sea.
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Only difficult if you tell the authorities. Many years ago we did a burial at sea on the Columbia River for a long term friend of mine who I frequently boated with.

We gathered up some of his friends and went for a cruise. After a few prayers were said we all got a chance to put some of Ray's ashes in the river.

He would have been very happy to see that.
 
Pirate Lady said:
From what i read, unless you were in the Navy, they get special dispensation, it is very difficult to get a permit to dispose of human ashes at sea.
So a landfill worth of ash probably isn’t going to happen.
But I very well could be wrong, don’t know for sure.
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You're likely right. US ACE got huge pushback for a plan to dump Connecticut River dredge spoils in designated dredge spoil locations. And that's stuff that was already in the water.
 
Skydivers create a missing man formation and open the urn in the empty position..
 
ttmott said:
Ash is used extensively in cement mixes. Pretty much all of the fly ash from power plants is used in concrete - possibly the ash from landfill incineration also....
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In NC they just dumped that shit into the rivers.
 
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