The world's largest single-capacity floating wind platform has two turbines
The world's largest single-capacity floating wind platform has two turbines
Mingyang Smart Energy's huge 16.6 megawatt OceanX, with its double turbine "V"-shaped floating wind platform, is a game-changer.
Looks cool as hell. Here in NJ a bunch of NIMBY pricks have been fighting offshore wind because it “ruins the view” which I find laughable. Seeing clean energy being produced makes me smile, who cares if there’s a windmill on the horizon.
Yeah, but coal fires create pretty sunsets
Y though
Because companies have been promising tidal power for decades and it never works because the tide is really strong and full of animals, plants, and garbage that really shouldn’t be around large moving machinery.
So this is the alternative
CorPower Ocean announces wave energy breakthrough in Portuguese waters from March.
Edit: There's also Eco Wave Power Commences Sending of Clean Electricity to the Israeli National Electrical Grid from January.
Edit2: There's the 254MW Sihwa tidal power station
Tidal power plants aren't a new technology though, so I'm guessing you meant wave power.
Y not?
What part of this don't you understand? If two turbines is good, and three turbines is better, obviously five turbines would make us the best fucking wind platform that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the wind platform game by clinging to the two-turbine industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five turbines is the biggest chance of all.
Sure, we could go to four blades next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three… Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
I'm more intetested how much per kW it produces cost, and the maintenance cost over its life span. It has to answer the question is it economical to build and maintain.
This is true, but investing in research and subsidizing its production is how we drive costs down. We’ve done a really incredible job of getting clean energy costs down from where they were, but there’s no need to slow our efforts down now
This could very well. Floating wind is expensive wind, so you could think of this as two turbines for the installation cost of one, or you could think of it as one pylon that produces double the power.
The hell does "single-capacity" mean here? The article doesn't specify.
After searching around, I'm somewhat sure that it's an incorrect statement. The capacity usually measures the megawattage output which is certainly not one. And I found a few older articles that don't even mention "single-capacity".
It has a single mooring so I assume that's what was meant.
How much energy do they spend to keep this floater in place?
0? It’s anchored to the sea floor.
That's cheating!
