Floating Wind Turbines
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Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/... 
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"Four hundred huge offshore wind turbines are providing onshore customers with enough electricity to power several hundred thousand homes, and nobody standing onshore can see them. The trick? The wind turbines are floating on platforms a hundred miles out to sea, where the winds are strong and steady."
I like the sound of these floating wind turbines for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it makes sense to put them where the winds are strongest. Given that our planet has so much water, making use of the seas like this means they can't be labelled an eyesore and they can make the most of the high winds out there.
Secondly, they have to be manufactured on land, and that seems like a great way to reinvogate a lot of the ship building towns that have falled into decline recently:
"Ocean assembly of the floating turbines would be prohibitively expensive because of their size: the wind tower is fully 90 meters tall, the rotors about 140 meters in diameter. So the researchers designed them to be assembled onshore--probably at a shipyard--and towed out to sea by a tugboat."
I wonder when the first of these is going to be tested out?
"Four hundred huge offshore wind turbines are providing onshore customers with enough electricity to power several hundred thousand homes, and nobody standing onshore can see them. The trick? The wind turbines are floating on platforms a hundred miles out to sea, where the winds are strong and steady."
I like the sound of these floating wind turbines for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it makes sense to put them where the winds are strongest. Given that our planet has so much water, making use of the seas like this means they can't be labelled an eyesore and they can make the most of the high winds out there.
Secondly, they have to be manufactured on land, and that seems like a great way to reinvogate a lot of the ship building towns that have falled into decline recently:
"Ocean assembly of the floating turbines would be prohibitively expensive because of their size: the wind tower is fully 90 meters tall, the rotors about 140 meters in diameter. So the researchers designed them to be assembled onshore--probably at a shipyard--and towed out to sea by a tugboat."
I wonder when the first of these is going to be tested out?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/...
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