Comment on How Singapore Plans To Pipe Electricity From Australia | Asianometry (15:17)
atro_city@fedia.io 5 months ago
I don't get it, they are surrounded by water. Why not build wind turbines and also include the surrounding countries instead of going 4500km away? Wouldn't 10B in the immediate surroundings be a more secure investment?
Also, why wouldn't Australia build this kind of a network for themselves? They could be 100% green pretty easily.
And what fill up important shipping and harbours with WindFarms ? They have almost no land and actively are dredging and building up out on the sea as it is.
If they expand too much they will either lose shipping lanes or docking locations for container ships.
You can’t mess with the local wildlife and ecology. There is a limit to anything and everything that Singapore can do on their already over-built tiny island.
Yes, that's why they could try and get wind farms along the coast of the myriads island around them. They are already proving that they are OK with getting energy from long distances, why not from the Philippines, Borneo, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, etc. They are much closer.
Do you understand how corruption works in SouthEast Asia? Do you understand the threat of China simply “stealing” / “destroying” other countries infrastructure? Imagine if China could cripple Singapore by cutting undersea cables etc, what would happen to WindFarms that are on the ocean surface.
Singapore PHYSICALLY CANNOT run WindFarms of the size and scale you are talking about. Not on their own territories and definitively not in other surrounding countries territories. Singapore depends on Water from Malaysia already( even then Singapore is installing Desalination plants in attempts to reduce the dependencies as we speak ) And If Singapore decides to depend so much on their neighbours, there is a real and imminent threat of corruption/sabotage/malfeasance/crimes that can seriously affect Singapore.
So instead of diversifying the risk and having multiple partners they're going to have one single long cable that can be cut? I don't think that makes more sense.
blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Singapore is on the equator, within the intertropical convergence zone which is known for windless weather. Wind farms wouldn’t be as efficient there.