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A Line of Adhesive: Offshore Wind Engineering
In July 2024 a hundred-metre turbine blade broke off Martha's Vineyard and fibreglass closed Nantucket's beaches. Episode one hundred and forty one uses that failure to open up offshore wind engineering: why wind at sea is worth so much more, how a rotor almost twice the diameter of the London Eye catches it, how two-thousand-tonne steel tubes are hammered into the seabed without deafening porpoises, why turbines float in deep water and how their controllers once rocked them harder, how wakes steal wind between farms, and how power gets ashore through cables that are the industry's costliest…
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