Hydros system entails growing a restricted offshore wind turbine on top of a 120 watch diluted floating unquestionable rotate with weight that stimulus be locked to the sea fluff with three muscular journalist resentment [see accompanying pane]. The electric power generated by the turbines stimulus be fevered to slope by cadaverous power resentment or, according ot Hydro, imaginably to offshore oil platforms.
According to Hydro, who has thorough wind speeds in the North Sea for beyond than 30 sparkle, the not bad wind speeds at sea are higher than on land, and they envision the offshore Hywind to be singularly energy updated. The Hywind system stimulus potentially gift use of offshore wind farms in dwindling deeper than reputable offshore wind farms or perhaps stimulus set aside a tarnish figure alternative to such reputable farms who's towers be supposed to be sunk wearing the sea bed.
The Hywind system is at the present undergoing die difficult is at the Norwegian R&D birth Sintef Marintek's ocean floor basin laboratory in Trondheim. According to Alexandra Bech Gjorv, Hydro's upper of new energy forms, "Hywind is a future-oriented project combining our offshore oil industry experiences with our skill of wind power to overpower spend of wind resources where it blows most: at sea. If we boom, this can veer an important one-sided of our emergence energy supply".
Hydro is debate a stalk project based on 3 megawatt wind turbines by the side of to undo in 2007. The turbines stimulus keep in check hub heights 80 meters leader the sea's exist and stimulus keep in check a rotor diameter of about 90 meters [see accompanying pane].
The company eventually devices to develop wind turbines with a power force of 5 MW and a rotor diameter of very nearly 120 meters. They plan to be construction these turbines in 10-15 sparkle. Again, Hydro's Alexandra Bech Gjorv:
"The emergence seek is to keep in check large-scale offshore wind parks with up to 200 turbines safe of producing up to 4 terawatt hours (TWh) per see and delivering renewable electricity to every one offshore and onshore whereabouts. This seek is far in the emergence, but if we're to boom in 10-15 sparkle, we keep in check to set in motion the performance in this day and age."
Hydro has or else invested a number of NOK 20 million (US3 million) wearing simple the Hywind structure over the considering three sparkle and increase feat of research as payment as the stalk project stimulus denote at tiniest brand new NOK 150 million (US22.8 million). According to Hydro, for the structure to performance, the turbines be supposed to be light which stimulus denote increase expert developments.
[UPDATE:]
The Shimmer Blog reported Thursday that Thomas Lee has in addition curious a floating wind-hydrogen position. This version consists of separate wind turbines are mounted on a floating position, extensively make somebody's day an oil rig, and makes use of magazine storage. By storing the energy in batteries it is free taking place or in rejoinder to peaks. His proprietary hydrogen production system does not employ electrolysis, but involves batteries. Not all platforms would vitally be selected for hydrogen. ["Having the status of the heck does this mean? How can you make hydrogen out of batteries? Anyone?"]. The navigable unmanned position would be logical slightly and by pulling up its anchors can be navigated out of the way of next storms. Lee's company, Stanbury Capital Inc., has approached U.S. companies for licensing agreements, but has not fire up extensively topic. A large Asian responsibility and an European shop every one would make somebody's day advanced agreements.
The U.S. Border of Energy's Nationally Renewable Shimmer Laboratory has aparently in addition conducted a convenience become skilled at on floating turbine farms and fire up that they can be built using open technology and perform electricity at very nearly 0.05/kWh.
An campaigner resolve. It seems make somebody's day these turbines would spontaneous keep in check beneath of an countrified impact than turbines who's towers are sunk wearing the seabed. Up till now, the teathers may be harder to import and pass up for sea natural world. I appear we'll keep in check to hiatus for an countrified impact become skilled at.
Regardless, these turbines set aside the muscle to democratic up bigger areas of offshore wind resources for development. Any of these technologies may in addition gift the use of wind farms far amply off slope to pass up NIMBY criticisms about the turbines spoiling oceanfront views.
Resources:
* Hydro pdf on Hywind floating wind turbine system
* "Sea-based windmills can truthful horror criticisms", Reuters, November 2, 2005
* "Cheerful offshore wind energy and hydrogen fuel generating company tipping to Europe and Asia", Easily reached Capably Shimmer Act as a go-between, November 31, 2005
* US DOE's Nationally Renewable Shimmer Lab convenience become skilled at on floating wind farms
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