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Norway: World’s biggest floating wind farm will power oil and gas platforms (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1892428

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how to feel about this. Renewables for any use is a win, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I guess those would be powered by non renewables traditionally so this isn't dissimilar to normal wind farm usage really

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The oil companies wanted to build a nuclear plant in my about 15 years back. Would have services about a million homes and industry. Public opinion shut it down.