System Of Sama Bajau
Semporna was originally just a small fishing village in Malaysia. It can't even be found on a map and has gradually developed into a world-famous undersea tourism centre. Surrounded by seawater, Semporna and its islands are like a dream island in the real world. It's a great diving destination and there are many excellent diving bases around to learn all kinds of divi ng lessons. But now it's a bit overdeveloped, so the environment is less "perfect" and people are looking for better places to experience diving.
The Bajo live along the coast and build houses on stilts built on shallow rocks, continuing their tradition of loving the sea as home. Due to the rise of tourism, some coastal cities have begun to offer a variety of water sports, such as diving, rafting, water surfing, or tourists can set off to several famous tourist islands. They are involved in tourism in a variety of ways. Bajo women have traditionally collected various types of shellfish and other marine species from mudflats and intertidal flats, as well as shallow water in reef zones, to contribute to home sustenance and market output. Women’s ability to sustain these contributions has deteriorated as these areas have been included in the NTZs. Tourists feed women and children, and the Bajo have become a major tourist destination.
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Today the Bajo catch very little fish. Usually men go fishing and trade in seafood markets or restaurants to get food for the family.
The scenic Semporna is famous for its crystal clear waters, and the Bajau people have become an integral part of the route in an evolving tourism system. The traditional living Spaces of the Bajau people have also become tourist attractions. Meanwhile, the rise of tourism has forced bajos to beg for money and food from tourists.
marine product tourism industry
Cluster of Sama Bajau
-Exchange process
Bajo would only travel to land on rare occasions. In recent years, though, some of them have established villages along the coast, with dwellings erected on stilts. Some Bajo were also on the Indonesian Togean Islands, and they appeared to have established in, with a mosque and children attending a local school. Bajo in Sabah appears to be still off limits. Because they do not have a birth certificate or a nationality card, few Bajo children get access to formal education.
Bajo divers are the greatest in the world because they live by the sea and can spend lengthy periods of time underwater without using any equipment. Their lungs developed to a larger capacity, and their eyes can see underwater more clearly than a normal person. As a result, there are excellent fishermen who feed their families as well as sell to Malaysians. Their main source of income is sailing, as they can catch sea creatures such as lobsters, crabs, fish, clams, mussels, and a variety of seashells.
Restaurants
Bajo approached travellers with their small wooden boats to beg for food and money as soon as they arrived. Tourists are advised not to give money since it spoils them and makes them unwilling to work and earn money. Instead, they become lazy and send their children to beg for money in Semporna.
Bajo people use wood and bamboo to build houses. In addition to cutting trees, they also collect floating logs from the sea. The Bajo people use natural resources. They use a special facial mask from one type of tree, which works perfectly as a sun screen.
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The
Bajo Stilt houses Trees Trees Markets
Scenic Spots
Boat Houses/ Stilt houses on the sea
Floating wood
Cluster Of Sama Bajau
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Figure: Routine-Activity As Perception
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Conclusion
The Bajau, who initially followed the fish from the land, have long served as ambassadors for maritime trade. The Bajau lifestyle is prone to "cross-border" behaviour and expulsion. Through countless changes, assimilation, and intervention by the authorities, This, combined with the growth of the global fishing trade, has put the traditional fishing industry of the Bajau people under great pressure. Their sea area contains less fish, and their traditional hunting methods are less able to compete with modern fisheries. In recent years, to avoid disputes and protect Marine resources, the government has encouraged them to come ashore to earn a living. Now the Bajau people are divided into three main groups. The traditional Bajau people still live on houseboats and make their homes everywhere. The Bajau, who live in stilted wooden houses by the sea, take their first steps out of the sea and try to adapt to the land, but are still reluctant to leave the sea completely. Many Bajau people who yearn for stability have obtained identification papers, started living and working in villages, married and had children, and are "second-class citizens" but at least not floating around for life. In the collision of modern civilization, their original culture is also disappearing. For these changes of some Bayao people, some people lament that they have changed from yearning for freedom to completely yielding to reality, but many Bajau people still choose to live with the sea. Apart from selling fish and buying
daily necessities, they tried not to go ashore. At sea, their lives boil down to their most basic needs.
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Conclusion -Consequence
In southeastern Sulawesi, the Bajau, a marine tribe found along Southeast Asia's beaches, reside. The Bajau are a tribe that relies on maritime resources for survival and has never owned land. The land is where they are buried when they die for them. The Bajau, who spend their entire lives on the sea, are only buried after they die, and when they die in the middle of the sea, they are dragged down with huge loads or stones to ensure that they hit the bottom. Apart from this, the land does not provide a direct source of income for the Bajau. Instead, they use their sea resources as capital to purchase rice and corn on the land. People ignored these Bajau people drifting in the sea, and they subsequently became "stateless people". Because of this historical legacy, the Bayao people living on the maritime borders of various countries do not belong to any country, nor are they protected by any country. This is a corrosive state, and statelessness will affect every Bayao's daily life. Because they are not citizens of any country, they cannot go to school, own property, legally work, or Sue if they are wronged. In fact, without a piece of identification, they do not know how old they are. They judge the time of day by the rising and setting of the sun and the ebb and flow of the tide, but they are not familiar with the concepts of year, month and week. Just like people on land get seasick when going to sea, the traditional Bayao people will feel 'dizzy on land' once they
step on the shore. And this discomfort, besides physical or psychological. Poverty, backwardness and illiteracy exposed them to prejudice and discrimination from the surrounding people. Even on land, they are "cheaper" than other undocumented immigrants.
As they were gradually subjected to the effect of absorption into the neighbouring countries' population, admission into the capitalist market economy, and globalisation, changes in the Bajau's life and culture as sea gipsies and nomads began to emerge. The establishment of a national marine park in Indonesia has had a significant impact on Bajau's traditional culture and way of life. Declaring it a national park means the state has direct control over certain areas and their resources. Coercion and violence are used against "natives" who resist or criticise the state's dominant measures. To put it another way, although preservation plans for specific regions provide justifiable causes for national violence, they also cause interference and a loss of everyday control for persons who live their own cultures and lifestyles. Residents of Flores, Maluku, and Sabah in Malaysia, as well as the Bajau in the Wakatobi area, rely on existing ties or forging new ones to meet a variety of needs when sailing or travelling to other areas. Throughout the Indonesian archipelago, this travel and migration exchanges knowledge, tales, and occasionally
family members about the sea. The tradition of Bajau-Maluku social links, centred on Tukang Besi, continues to this day.
• Poor survival resources—greatly influenced by nature
• Low level of civilization
• Unique cultures are overconsumed
• Without legal status
• No Security and Medical System
• No Education
Local government (in regions where the Bajau temporarily resides) had encouraged them to live on land. Some have moved to permanent dwellings on the land, while others temporarily settled offshore at sea but close to land. A small group of Sama Bajau society has begun permanently settling around the Kaledupa island in Wakatobi region, though they still dwell in the sea and show no sign to relocate themselves to the island. The shift to permanent in the sea has brought a gradual change in the local environment as well as the quality. Local government intervention in improving public facilities such as mosque and elementary school have accelerated modernization. This in turn changes the lifestyle of the society from a previously sprawl neighbourhood to a much denser kampung. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate how a nomadic society's typically temporary and dispersed encampment has quickly developed a permanent kampung at sea. As the floating-like kampung develops denser, there is
also a potential damage to the environment. This case study is being used as part of our methodology. We conducted a step-by-step study on systems, populations, and individuals during the research process. This also acts as the foundation for the rest of our research.
What we find is that these maritime nomads are not so much constantly moving and migrating as they are evolving as necessary over time and as the environment changes. These include access to resources, political factors and the influence of other ethnic groups. This is a process of historical deduction, not just movement and migration.
In the North Sea, we try to think from the point of view of nomadism whether there are some people who also move to achieve certain goals, or whether the conditions in the North Sea drive them to become nomadism, nomadism in a non-traditional sense.
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'Perhaps in Bajo people's eyes, we are special beings who live on land.'
Three Scales of Sama Bajau
For Sama Bajau:
System is the flowing network of basic activities and all the elements involved in daily activities.
Cluster is the flow in space of a group of figures positioning or occurring closely together.
Figure is the single unit that are interrelated.
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'Performance' 'STAGE' 'ACTOR'
From Sama Bajau To The North Sea
The relationship between the ethnic group and human in Bajau system is extracted through analysis. In the system, the traditional seafood trade and tourism complement each other and become part of Bajau's life. Among the ethnic groups, Bajau who live in the sea and on the coast, and Bajau who have moved to the land have formed stable trade relations with surrounding aborigines and tourists, while the coast provides a trading platform for everyone. Land-Bajau often acts as a middleman in daily life, from language to industry.
In this System, cluster and Figure scales. The system refers to the overall flow of things across the relative territory. The Cluster refers to a single node where we could identify the nomad figure and their relations to the space and neighbour. From the Figure we could find the rhythm and movement of single item (human), which could help us understand how people feel under such a huge system. So how about the North Sea?
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'System' Node Unit 'Cluster' Interaction 'Figure' Perception
PART B
THE NORTH SEA ATLAS
Chapter IV: North Sea Energy
Performance:
Background
Oil decommission
Wind energy development
Policy
Territory
Network
Stage:
Cluste of production
West of Shetland
Supply and construction
Wind farm
Production and City
Cluster as Stage
Actor:
Actor Network
Nomad Figures
Rythum of Figure Views
SYSTEM FIGURE CLUSTER
Background: North Sea Oil and Gas
As early as 1859, people discovered oil in the onshore areas around the North Sea and natural gas in 1910.
The offshore test drilling was started in 1966 and the Ekofisk oil field, was known for its valuable, low-sulphur oil, discovered by Phillips Petroleum Company in 1969. Tankers were first used for commercial exploitation in 1971 and pipeline was first used after 1975 by the UK.
Although the cost of extracting oil in the North Sea is very high, the quality of the oil, the relatively stable regional policies, and the geographical environment close to Western Europe market make the North Sea important as an oil production area. Take the United Kingdom as an example. The oil production allowed the United Kingdom to overcome the unfavourable economic situation during the 1973 oil crisis, and there was a huge increase after the discovery of this huge oil field in the Brae field.
By 2018, the North Sea region contains 184 offshore rigs, which makes it the region with the highest number of offshore rigs in the world.
In the UK sector of the North Sea, the oil industry invested 14.4 billion pounds in 2013 and is expected to invest 13 billion pounds in 2014. Industry bodies attribute the decline in UK investment to rising costs, lower production, high tax rates and reduced exploration.
Oil production in the United Kindom
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fields discovered fields bought onstream 1965-2020
Background: North Sea Wind Energy
Offshore wind energy is clean and renewable energy obtained by using the wind generated on the high seas. As there are no obstacles, its wind speed is higher and more constant than on land. Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is a wind farm deployed in a body of water
Unlike the typical use of the term “offshore” in the marine industry, offshore wind power includes offshore waters such as lakes, fjords, protected coastal areas and deep waters. Most offshore wind farms use fixed-base wind turbines in relatively shallow water. In 2020, floating wind turbines for deeper waters are in the early stages of development and deployment. Considering the proportion of the ocean to the land, the ocean covers more than 70% of the surface of the earth, and offshore wind energy resources are inherently large in scale and highly dispersed. The wind speed offshore is much higher than the wind speed at the same location on lands, such as forests and savanna, because there are no land obstacles and the surface roughness of water is lower. The global wind speed chart illustrates this fact using the same input data and methods covering land and sea areas.
In the North Sea, the energy of wind turbines is approximately 30 kWh/m2 per year, which is transmitted to the grid. The produced offshore energy of each area is roughly the size of the turbine.
The energy import and export countries in European regions.
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annual added capacity cumulative capacity 1990-2050
IMPORT EXPORT NETURAL
The trends of energy in the North Sea
Since the 1990s, countries on the North Sea, particularly Germany and Denmark, have utilised the shore for wind power due to strong prevailing winds and shallow water. Many more wind farms have been built in the North Sea since then (and elsewhere). The overall European combined offshore wind energy capacity was 6,040 MW at the end of June 2013. In the first half of 2013, the UK installed 513.5 MW of offshore wind power.
Wind power in the North Sea is growing, with proposals for more wind farms off the shores of Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. A transnational power infrastructure in the North Sea has also been proposed to connect additional offshore wind farms.
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The North Sea Energy Overview System
In the coming decades, as the two major energy industries, the exploitation of oil and gas resources will decrease, and the development of wind power projects will continue to increase.
The picture on the right shows oil and gas rigs and wind power development areas in the North Sea, and there are also areas for joint development.
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Define Energy System System
In view of the fact that the North Sea is shared by many European countries, every government has its own ideas on how to develop the resources of the North Sea, whether from the perspective of sovereignty or from the perspective of economic development zones.
This has also led to differences in the development of the North Sea. How to jointly and effectively develop the North Sea is a problem facing the coastal countries.
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Energy As Territory System
The development of different energy projects and other human activities have caused people to re-divide the ocean, and energy has become a part of the definition of territory.
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The International Network System
Although all energy projects are located in the North Sea, the development of the North Sea is still a global activity, and the flow of materials, personnel and economy are also global.
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Transfer Across Country System (Oil
& Gas)
Different countries have different requirements for energy. From the geographical perspective of Europe, there is still a division of origin and consumption. This also makes the energy flow in the North Sea cross-country and cross-ocean.
For example, the UK is the main energy importer, while Norway is the main energy exporter.
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The Lifecycle Of O&G Production
System (Oil & Gas)
Due to policy and capacity reasons, oil and gas exploration activities in the North Sea will also gradually end. Most of the oil and gas platforms in the North Sea will face production suspension and dismantling in the next 10 to 20 years.
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Infrastructure Decommisioning
System (Oil & Gas)
The dismantling of oil and gas platforms requires a large number of workers and wharf factories to process. The dismantling of hundreds of huge structures will bring new activities and a large amount of materials that can be used for secondary use to the wharves along the way.
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Potential Of Clean Energy System
In the next few decades, under the influence of policies, new energy sources based on wind energy will gradually replace oil and gas energy.
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A New Coastal Industry System (Offshore
Wind)
New energy will continue to supply the production and development of the countries along the route and drive the development of these regions.
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Coastal Level-Up System (Offshore Wind)
The development of new energy will also lead to the rise of related industries, such as the construction, installation and commissioning of windmills in wind power generation, the construction and transformation of power grids, etc.
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Cross-Euope Transfer Grid
System (Offshore Wind)
Extending to the entire European continent, wind energy in the north can make up for the lack of solar energy in the south in winter, while southern Europe in summer can supplement the energy needs of northern Europe. The cross-regional transmission of energy can greatly reduce people’s concerns about energy security.
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From System To Cluster - Oil & Gas
As a relatively traditional fossil energy industry, in the entire North Sea system, Oil & Gas as a node with a large amount of output cannot be ignored.
Under the energy system, an oil and gas production cluster can be regarded as a collection of offshore platforms, pipelines, shuttle ships and transportation terminals.
In order to better understand the internal spatial relationship of the energy cluster and its connection with the surrounding space, we will focus on offshore oil and gas production facilities in this chapter.
System Cluster Figure
Cluster Of Production
Cluster (Oil&Gas)
The production process of subsea oil is generally divided into two stages: exploration and exploitation. The production process of subsea oil includes drilling production wells, processing, storage, and transportation. There are many engineering measures for offshore drilling of production wells and oil and gas extraction, mainly divided into fixed oil and gas production platforms and floating oil and gas production platforms. In order to cooperate with the exploitation of offshore oil and natural gas, many countries have also built corresponding supporting devices for oil and gas storage and transportation.
The diagram on the right is showing the different components with their locations.
The next pages will take the Shetland area in northern Scotland as an example to discuss the relationship between oil drilling production and the sea and land.
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Offshore Platform
Pipelines
In transit Shuttle Ship
Onshore Storage
Mentainance Team
West of Shetland
Cluster (Oil&Gas)
There are 5 Oil fields on the west of Shetland Islands, Clair, Foinaven, Lancaster, Rosebank and Schiehallion ranging from 75 to 200 km west of Shetland.
The oil and gas industry has been active in the West Shetland Islands (WoS) region for the past 40 years, and interest and permit rounds in the region have increased significantly in the past 20 years.
Sullom Voe Terminal is an oil and gas terminal located in Sullom Voe, Shetland Islands, Scotland. It handles production from oil fields in the North Sea and East Shetland Basin, and stores oil before tanker transportation. The terminal handles more than a quarter of Britain’s oil production, and about 500 people work there.
The terminal receives oil through the Brent and Ninian pipeline system. Since August 1998, the specially constructed Loch Rannoch shuttle tanker has received oil from the Schiehallion and Foinaven fields.
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The Gherkin Platform
The Shard
Supply and Construction Cluster (Oil&Gas)
The design, construction, operation and abandonment of Oil rigs are controlled by a stable and predictable timeline.
The supply chain of this project is from all over the world. The main body of the project was constructed by companies from Norway and South Korea. And it was installed on the seabed by Heerema Marine Contractors in the Netherlands. There is another series of companies from Europe and America responsible for the production of parts, system research and development and commissioning of the project.
The project was officially completed and put into production in 2018, with an expected working time of up to 30 years.
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Typical Material And Working People Flow Of Clair Ridge Development
Clair Ridge development project
Space & Movement Cluster (Oil&Gas)
This chart describes the flow of people in the entire Oil & Gas cluster and their spatial relationship.
The staff on the drilling rig implements a shift system, and the staff on the terminal are more like ordinary employees. Some of these people are from Scotland and England, and quite a few are from Shetland Island.
City of Lerwick
Sullom Voe Oil Terminal
Offshore Platform
In Transit Airport
Cluster AS A Stage Cluster (Oil&Gas)
Cluster is like a zoomed in field that can locate matter and human activities. It not only reflects the flow of matter in the area but also provides a stage for us to analyze the figure in the next step.
From System To Cluster - Offshore Wind
Under the energy system, a wind energy cluster can be regarded as a collection of wind power stations, power conversion, power transmission, and consumption components.
In order to better understand the internal spatial relationship of the energy cluster and its connection with the surrounding space, we will focus on offshore wind power generation facilities in this chapter.
System Cluster Figure
The Grid Solutions
Cluster (Offshore Wind)
Forcast Of The Wind Energy Transnational System
Because of the extensive development of wind energy in the North Sea area, part of the national power grids are also connected by the advancement of wind power facilities. If we try to understand the energy cluster, especially in the field of wind energy, we need to understand the network of wind energy in the North Sea.
Although there has been some coordination across the country through the integration of multiple offshore wind farms (such as Germany and the United Kingdom) and the development of interconnectors between countries, there is still a need for better development of the North Sea offshore power generation resources. The issue of acting alone and acting together is still controversial.
Recognizing the important contribution that North Sea resources can make to achieve the renewable goals before 2020 and the future carbon goals, the North Seas Countries' Offshore Grid initiative was established as the responsible agency to evaluate and promote the coordinated development of possible offshore grids. Maximize the effective and economical use of these renewable resources and infrastructure investments.
Types of Grid Solutions
The NSCOGI considered the possible development of an offshore grid by utilising two different design strategies, thus enabling comparison between the different approaches
Radial -Using present and predicted future transmission technology, connect offshore wind farms with shore-to-shore interconnectors (with appropriate onshore development).
Meshed -Interconnecting offshore platforms, offshore development zones, and countries, with coordinated onshore, offshore, and linked design.
It should be recognised that the radial and meshed design strategies represent extreme ends of the spectrum of approaches. Any integrated offshore power grid will most likely emerge over time, and coordinating offshore wind power connections and point-to-point interconnection is a crucial initial step. In practise, a regional solution might contain some or all of the features depicted in the diagram on the right.
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Wind farms Offshore Node Onshore Substation Radial International coordination Local coordination Meshed solution (central loop)
The North Sea Energy Ring Cluster
(Offshore Wind)
Forcast Of The Wind Energy Transnational System
For the authenticity of the data, NSCOGI places their assessment time at the time node of 2030. Although the number of power grids planned for 2030 is not so sufficient in various countries, the expansion of the power grid to 2030 also involves the construction of a large number of new Interconnect capacities.
NSCOGI evaluated both radical and meshed solutions, and also made certain predictions regarding their rationality and economy. These data will not be of much help to our research on clusters, but their research also further illustrates the needs of the energy market and the consideration of grid security, the construction of cross-sea and international wind power energy networks is feasible and is gradually advancing.
This gives us plenty of reasons to continue to explore the way wind energy clusters operate in this network and its spatial impact.
The right two images show the forecast by NSCOGI of the meshed Grid Design for 2030 with their Reference Scenario and our forecast with such by 2050.
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Forcast
Wind
Offshore Node Onshore
Sea Wind Power grid with Offshore Nodes 2030
North Sea Wind Power grid with Offshore Nodes 2050
farms
Substation
Cluster Of Production Cluster (Offshore Wind)
The main components of offshore wind farms are wind turbines, cables and substations. Wind turbines are nothing but generators that convert wind energy into electrical energy.
The diagram on the right is showing the different components with their locations. Wind turbines are on the seabed with offshore substations. The maintenance team works in between the wind turbines and substations. There will be another substation on the coast to convert the electricity to the High voltage alternating current then transferred to the consumption unit in deep land.
In order to better understand the connection between each component in offshore wind power generation, we will focus on an offshore wind power plant offshore the UK - The Westermost Rough Wind Farm.
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Offshore Wind Farm
Inter-array Cables
Mentainance Team
Sea Cable
Land Cable
Offshore Substation
Onshore Substation
The Wind Energy Production
Westermost Rough Wind Farm Cluster
(Offshore Wind)
Westermost Rough Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm 8 kilometres northeast of Withernsea off the Holderness coast, in the North Sea, England. The farm covers an area of approximately 35 km2 with a generation capacity of approximately 210 MW. It became operational in May 2015.
The wind farm, which was completed in July 2015, contributes to the UK’s goal of installing 33 GW of wind power by 2020. Over the course of its expected 25-year operational life, the wind farm will create 800GWh of net renewable electricity each year, enough to power over 150,000 UK homes and offset 264,429t of CO2 emissions. In May of 2015, the wind farm began operational.
The offshore wind farm features 35 Siemens 6MW direct-drive wind turbines with 154m rotor diameter. The turbine’s blades are 75 metres long, making it the world’s longest, with a swept area of 18,600 metres and a height of 177 metres from sea level to blade tip.
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Wind
Farm & City Cluster (Offshore Wind)
The onshore power transmission network converts and transports electrical energy to cities and factories. The transmission network, like roads and railways, links cities together.
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Onshore Substation
Overhead Line Yorkshire and the Humber
Supply and Construction Cluster (Oil&Gas)
The design, construction, operation and abandonment of wind farms are controlled by a stable and predictable timeline.
The required construction approval from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change was granted in November 2011, construction works began in January 2014 and the first power was generated in September 2014.
Wind power generation in the North Sea is basically completed by the cooperation of multinational companies.
After Ørsted A/S (formerly known as Dong company) held all the shares in the project in 2015, Fugro, from the Netherlands took the lead in completing the seabed survey including the drilling of the turbine base and choose Siemens Gamesa from Germany as the provider of offshore wind power facilities...
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Westermost Rough Wind Farm
Space occupation & Biological impact Cluster (Oil&Gas)
We believe that it is an important aspect to let people have a clear understanding of the space and food of the wind power system.
Compared with wind turbines on the land, generators on the sea tend to have a larger size. The Wind turbine used at the Westermost Rough Wind Farm is even higher than the tallest bridge Humber Bridge on Site. In order to achieve maximum power generation efficiency, a greater distance must be left between the wind turbines, which also makes the actual area of the wind power plant even larger.
Because the cables used to transmit power between wind turbines are usually on the surface of the seabed, and some are even floating, their existence has greatly affected fishing and navigation in the vicinity of the wind power plant.
The noise generated by the operation of wind turbines has also been shown to potentially affect the range of fish schools, but the more specific report did not draw more conclusions in this regard.
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94m
Grimsby Dock Tower Humber Bridge
155m 150m 177m
6MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbine
Space & Movement
Cluster (Offshore Wind)
The Orsted servicing team operation centre sits on the South coast of River Humber-Grimsby. The onshore substation sits outside the City Hull. The staff working at both stations are from City of Hull and Grimsby.
City of Hull
Grimsby
Wind Farm
Substation Pier
Cluster AS A Stage
Cluster (Offshore Wind)
Cluster is like a zoomed in field that can locate matter and human activities. It not only reflects the flow of matter in the area but also provides a stage for us to analyze the figure in the next step.
Kingston upon Hull
Westermost Rough Wind Farm
River Humber
Actor Network
Figure Network instead of territory
Actor–network theory is a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly shifting networks of relationships. Wind energy network describes various flows between objects and the strange separation between its cluster and urban territory.
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Nomad Figures
Figure
Human/Non-human
The figure analysis pays close attention to human figures who are involved in the larger circulation as well as the non-human flows such as vessels or materials. Equally, dealing with both would map all nomad entities and the relationship between different human figures and human-non-human.
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Tracing Analysis
Figure
Offshore Operation Crew
We chose offshore operation crew as the research object. Tracing analysis of their real-time activities with the dimension of time and space reveals their repetitive movement between the onshore hub and wind turbines in the middle of the sea. In one circulation, their body would also interact with different types of space (vessel cabins, platforms, etc.).
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The Rhythm
Nomadland of the North Sea The North Sea Atlas - Studio One 88 INFRA:SPACE X MSA
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The View On The Sea
For 2-week-long, crews stay in the support vessel as a temporary home. They sail toward the wind turbine each morning, spend hours for maintenance and sail back. That becomes the daily routine of these nomads.
Nomadland of the North Sea The North Sea Atlas - Studio One 89 INFRA:SPACE X MSA
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