Loading ...Roughly 40 years ago , Westinghouse had a division in JAX , FL called Offshore Power Systems ( OPS ). The concept was to have a floating nuclear plant miles offshore protected by a seawall which , if memory serves me right , was to be made of large concrete structures shaped like the jacks that girls played with back in the 1950’s . Those would be cast onshore then piled up by dumping them in a circle around the chosen site until high enough to resist the largest waves (rollers) of hurricane storms. Once in place , the floating platform would be constructed inside and on top of that , the PWR nuclear plant with condenser cooling provided by the seawater . There were concerns about integrity of the cable bringing the power to land , etc.
As the concept was losing momentum , I needed manpower for one of my reports under contract to EPRI ( Electric Power Research Institute ), and a young East Indian engineering manager provided input .
He would be retired now , but had he had input in creating a seawall around that solar installation , the devastation might have been avoided .
Personally , I believe large scale solar installations outside of arid desert locations are financially doomed , as are windmills for grid power . Burying the huge blades at end of life (more frequent than planned) is an ecological disaster .
IPSO re: the solar devastation offshore in India
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