As you fly 200 miles north of London, along the coast, you can see the town of Grimsby below — home to the largest crop of offshore wind turbines in the world, known as the Hornsea Wind Farm.
This past August, President Biden signed a sweeping climate bill into law, making wind power a priority. Specifically, offshore wind power.
To understand the power, size and upkeep of this evolving technology, we geared up on land and traveled 90 minutes on the heaving North Sea with 24-year-old Bridie Salmon. Her job is to scale and service the turbines. My job, with the help of a little anti-nausea gum was to simply, hold down my lunch.Sharyn Alfonsi: I feel-- okay. It's more important"How do you feel?"When your last name is Salmon, negotiating rough waters is sort of in your DNA.
Bridie Salmon: Yeah, well, that's it. I mean, so at very top, the nacelle-- all the way to the top of the blades is half the size of the Eiffel Tower, which is pretty massive, it is. And because you've got nothing normal to compare it to like a building, you just see these in the distance. And then you're here. And it's-- yeah, they're pretty bloody huge.
On this day, success. Bridie harnesses herself to a cable, leaps to a ladder, and begins the climb rung by rung, eight stories to the top. About five years ago, Orstead decided to sell off it's oil and gas business and focus on renewable energies. Grimsby, a depressed fishing town, became the unlikely backdrop to Europe's clean energy movement. Benj Sykes: It's got a good port. And it's geographically really well located. Physically in terms of the water depth, in terms of the wind resource and of course places to connect to the national grid so that we can get that power to homes and businesses.
Sharyn Alfonsi: One big criticism is cost. They're expensive to construct, to transmit and to decommission. Is that cost passed on to consumers. Then, to a power station on land where that electricity created out at sea is transferred into homes and businesses, inviting the question, what happens if the wind stops blowing?
Dennis Avery: If you caught a good trip, and you steam back to Grimsby with a fish room full of fish, you know it's a marvelous feeling.
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