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triceratopsyesterday at 10:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Are they shutting down offshore oil drilling too?


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hammocktoday at 1:46 AM

Order of magnitude increase in difficulty to defend a wind farm vs an oil rig. Wind farms are dispersed, not continuously manned, harder to monitor/enforce a 500m maritime safety zone of exclusion, have a greater attack surface (subsea cables, substations), and are easier to sabotage with plausible deniability