Belgium plans artificial island to store wind power
January 22, 2013
Wind farm (credit: Stanford University)
Belgium is planning to build a doughnut-shaped island in the North Sea that will store wind energy by pumping water out of a hollow in the middle, as it looks for ways to lessen its reliance on nuclear power, Reuters reports.
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Comments (4)
by Thom Westergren
Technically, the hole in the middle would make it an atoll, not an island.
by Bob Vasquez
An excellent place to build these would be off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.
by cosmowrench
Belgium is a very densly populated country. There are no remote regions. No nuclear plant is 100% failsafe. Imagine an area with a 30 km radius around Antwerp becomming uninhabitable.
by Major
Why not rely on modern (gen. III and up) nuclear power plants in a seismic-stable country?