floating wind turbine Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:08:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Magenn’s Floating Wind Turbines: Free Power Anywhere https://www.greenoptimistic.com/magenns-floating-wind-turbines-free-power-anywhere-20080605/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/magenns-floating-wind-turbines-free-power-anywhere-20080605/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:05:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=284 The MARS wind turbine is lifted by helium, and it floats at an altitude of 1000 feet above the ground where it can easily capture any kind of winds, whether they're as slow as 4mph or as fast as 60mph. Speed is not a big problem here.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/magenns-floating-wind-turbines-free-power-anywhere-20080605/feed/ 0 284 StatoilHydro to Build World’s First Floating Wind Turbine https://www.greenoptimistic.com/statoilhydro-will-build-worlds-first-floating-wind-turbine-20080529/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/statoilhydro-will-build-worlds-first-floating-wind-turbine-20080529/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 07:16:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=273 The Norwegian state oil company StatoilHydro is about to build “Hywind”, the world’s first functional floating wind turbine, and to test it for two years offshore Karmi¸y. They have developed HyWind based on familiar concrete constructions floating from North Sea oil installations. The rotor blades on their floating wind turbine will be enormous: 80 meters […]

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