New windfarm ships

[sailorman]

At least it should cut down on the high speed cat trips

https://gcaptain.com/2016/01/18/bibby-marine-orders-purpose-built-offshore-wind-farm-service-vessel/

 

[Cantata]

Nice to see where all the subsidy money we're paying on our electric bills is going... :disgust:

 

[sailorman]

Nice to see where all the subsidy money we're paying on our electric bills is going... :disgust:

Yes, Dutch Ship builders
At least these ships wont be doing 25kts in the fog

 

[bedouin]

Nice to see where all the subsidy money we're paying on our electric bills is going... :disgust:

Yes - that is one reason why we are losing so many jobs in the steel industry

 

[sailorman]

Yes - that is one reason why we are losing so many jobs in the steel industry

But one can gain an NVQ in burger flipping these daze :sleeping:

 

[nauticalnomad]

But one can gain an NVQ in burger flipping these daze :sleeping:

Yes but i have an NVQ Level 5 in Burger flipping which is doctorate level and im always employed..

 

[rgarside]

Yes, Dutch Ship builders
At least these ships wont be doing 25kts in the fog

Dutch owned shipbuilders, yard in Romania I think. If they are living out there on one of these for a month at a time the demand for waterfront property & dredging, etc in Brightlingsea may reduce a bit.

They can do the crew change by helicopter straight from Schipol. No local demand even for burger flipping!

 

[PeterWright]

Yes - that is one reason why we are losing so many jobs in the steel industry

I'm afraid the Dutch steel business isn't faring much better than ours. Even Dutch shipyards are now getting hulls for smaller craft welded up at the Lovosice yard on the Elbe in the Czech Republic then towed via the Mitelland Kanal to Dutch yards for fitting out. Steel for these mostly comes from the Mittal owned steelworks in Ostrava which is also laying off staff as I write.

The beginning of this disaster was the EU unilateral attempts at limiting CO2 emissions through taxation, which merely transferred most of the emissions of energy intensive industries from Europe to the far east, without reducing them at all, and I thought climate change was meant to be a global problem...

 

[Tomahawk]

Sadly eurocracy is a local problem.

 

[Kurrawong_Kid]

Nice to see where all the subsidy money we're paying on our electric bills is going... :disgust:

Not all unfortunately! Huge subsidies to Eon for Hinkley Point nuclear, Drax burning subsidised biomass, farmers and residential(like me!) solar feed in tarif. The economics of power generation are crazy. We pay for it partly by taxation rather than directly for the cost of production.