There is (offshore wind powered) light at the end of the tunnel!  

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Jerome a Paris has a post at TOD on some of the issues involved in constructing offshore wind farms - There is (offshore wind powered) light at the end of the tunnel!.

I went on a visit of the port site in Zeebrugge where the foundations for the Belwind offshore wind farm (the financing of which I worked on) have been stored before their installation and wanted to give you a glimpse of the kind of logistics that entails and what kind of problems can happen (and how they are solved).

Follow me below for a tour of a small bit of Europe's fastest growing heavy industry.

As a quick reminder, there are 3 main types of foundations for offshore turbines: monopiles, gravity-based, and jackets/tripods. ...

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