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The Inevitability of a 100% Renewable Energy Supply with Rosie Barnes

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The Constraints of Offshore Wind Turbines

If you have one big thing rather than 22 small things, there's less stuff involved in producing that I'm guessing. In terms of actual materials in the tower and the blades specifically, then it's the opposite. You'd have less if you had more smaller ones. So it's just the constraints are different to what people think. And they're moving all the time. One of the big constraints that's stopping them getting bigger is that tower diameters can't be bigger than what you can transport on the road. That's becoming a constraint. But now you see people trying to make like spiral welded towers. People are making towers out of other materials. It's really hard to say

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