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Ship begins laying 440km cable to link world’s largest offshore wind farm to UK energy grid::A massive cable linking what will become the UK’s biggest offshore wind farm with the mainland energy grid has started construction in the North Sea.

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[–] bia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That ship is much larger than I expected for "just" laying cables. But then again, I have no idea how they do it...

[–] Zelda_pinwheel1971@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an amazing vessel. If it ever comes to Southampton I hope to be able to visit. Source: work for Prysmian and it's cool to see us "in the wild" like this 🙂🙂

https://www.prysmiangroup.com/en/new-vessel-leonardo-da-vinci

[–] bia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was hoping for more info in the article, so thanks!