CStories App comments

[bbest]

From Grace...

Hi Ben, Jon, and Caleb,

Attached are some comments on the CStories App.

Based on these comments, in the near-term (before next Wednesday), please make the following edits:

• [x] Infographics – Moorings After the line, “The less material in the water, the less chance of entanglement with wildlife like whales and dolphins.” Please add the following text:

  The risk of marine life becoming directly entanglement with a floating offshore wind mooring system (“primary entanglement”) is low. However, marine debris, such as lost, derelict fishing gear, may become caught in floating offshore wind mooring lines, which could potentially pose a risk to entanglement of marine life. This is termed “secondary entanglement”. More research is needed to fully evaluate risks of secondary entanglement to marine life.

• [x] #6 Please replace the figure with this one (also attached), credit Windpower Engineering & Development (https://www.windpowerengineering.com/), and state “Not to scale”. Not sure why Sharon wants the TLP removed from the figure as it appears in most references to floating offshore wind platforms. Let’s leave it in for now and find out on Wednesday. I also don’t want to darken the mooring lines because this modal window is focused on the platforms.
• [x] Infographics – Subsea Cables Change the text to: There are two primary subsea cables in offshore wind: Interarray and export cables. Export cables transmit power from the offshore substation to the onshore substation. Once they reach shallower waters, these cables are buried beneath the seafloor to avoid disturbing ocean users and wildlife. Interarray cables connect individual floating offshore wind turbine platforms to one another and to a substation to transmit the power being generated. These cables are likely to be suspended relatively loosely in the water column using floats in deeper waters, or run along the seafloor in shallower waters. The size of these cables is large enough that they are unlikely to directly entangle wildlife (primary entanglement). However, marine debris, such as lost, derelict fishing gear, may become caught in floating offshore wind mooring lines, which could potentially pose a risk to entanglement of marine life. This is termed “secondary entanglement”. More research is needed to fully evaluate risks of secondary entanglement to marine life.
• [x] #7 Let’s wait until Wednesday to talk with Sharon about how to address her comments.
• [x] Infographics – Whales The link to PNNL does not work (???). Let’s add the following text (and web link) above the video: Adapted from the Tethys site: Commercial interest in developing floating wind energy in the deep waters of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf has raised questions about whales and other large cetaceans potentially encountering the mooring lines and electrical cables from a floating offshore wind farm. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory created an animated simulation of a humpback whale mother and her calf swimming through a hypothetical floating offshore wind farm to visualize the scale of the whales compared to the scale of the wind farm’s underwater components. This simulation helps characterize the risk of whale encounters with mooring lines and electrical cables. The floating wind farm shown in the video is a hypothetical but realistic depiction of what could be installed off the U.S. west coast and Hawaii. Humpbacks were chosen as the whale species to depict because of their presence in the Pacific Region and their large pectoral fins—appendages that could make them more likely to encounter the mooring lines and electrical cables if they are swimming nearby.
• [x] Infographics – Wind Turbines Under the video, please add the following text: Off the coast of Grimsby, England, more than 300 fixed foundation wind turbines produce electricity to help power over 2 million homes a day.
• [x] News – are we going to enable filtering?

Let me know if you can make these changes by Wednesday. We’ll talk about the Chat Bot more then.

[bbest]

Thank you for these suggested improvements, Grace and all!

The text edits are easy, but the infographics part might be time consuming to get to all look nice.

For the News, I did turn on filtering (along with sorting and striping):

cstories.app/beta/news.html

We also got the News to update automatically every day using a Github Action here:

Actions · cstories-app/beta (details: + GH Action to render news articles · Issue #4 · cstories-app/beta)

[bbest]

Infographics – Whales

Interestingly, the link Exploring Encounters between Humpback and Floating Wind Farms | PNNL works in a new or dedicated window, but not within an iframe:

Resolved by having link open in a new tab with the markdown trick:

[link](https://example.com){target="_blank"}

Applied same new-window linking to all links in *.QMDs.