When I watched the movie Draumalandið or Dreamland, propagandic movie against heavy industry in Iceland, I started to think of the windmill park that is supposed to build in Jæren. It supplies green energy but for whom? What does it do for the local community? It does not supply them with jobs when/if the oil is gone. It has grate affects on the landscape but is it necessary to make it now, is it something that we can keep for the future to use or make a chose of using?
Hi Snædis
ReplyDeleteI listened to a Rem Koolhas lecture in Harvard some time ago. There he presented OMAs research senter, AMOs, concept for enormous wind mill conglomerations in the Biscaya Bay and the Nordic Sea. Intention: To produce energy on the level with what comes out of the oil fields in the middle east. The British has, as you may now, presented a large scale concept of windmills on the Dogger bank, out into the sea to manage to serve 25% of the countries energy use (with Statoil as partner).
In the Øresund Region, between Copenhagen and Malmö, the windmills in the seascape is now a logo for the region, they are on all postcards and has entered into the realm of energy estetichs. There is possible to see heaps of windmills as a step, or a move, towards alternative energy on a large scale. We may find it as primitive sollutions on humanities way to more smart sollutions and systems, fex advanced use of solar energy, water, wave and stream energy etc.
The windmills create work in the phase of production, but after construction, in use, they demand only surveilance, control and maintanance - not big work forces as you clearly states.
KED
These are some very interesting questions. I must say that I have not thought of this when I've thought about wind energy and windmills in itself. But this is actually quite relevant to the use of windmills as alternative energy source. Thank you, that you asked these questions.
ReplyDeleteOne can perhaps not only deal with the wind, but wind turbines are perhaps part of a greater investment in renewable energy.
As Knut Eirik said, it's work in relation to the production of wind turbines, and when it is produced, so it requires only monitoring and maintenance. But it is probably also the oil production. It is a resource that eventually will disappear, so the question is probably how long they have jobs? Can you when you look at the timeframe, comparing oil produskjon with the wind when it comes to jobs?
Maya