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Researchers Warning about Hurricane Effects on Offshore Wind Farms to be Built by Government

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:13:56 +0000

Whoever saw a wind turbine in action and a storm in action can imagine how it would be like these two met – and they do, on a regular basis. Not few wind turbines have been destroyed by powerful storms, but hurricanes could be even more fatal to them, they the poor expensive sticks rising […]

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WindFloat: Offshore Wind Turbine That Doesn't Need Heavy Lifting Equipment to Install It

Mike Sandru — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:17:39 +0000

Principle Power, Inc. (Seattle-based offshore wind energy developer) in collaboration with Energias de Portugal ( a Portuguese utility) have successfully installed a full-scale 2-megawatt WindFloat off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal. The WindFloat project is the world’s first offshore wind deployment which, according to the companies, doesn’t need any heavy lift equipment offshore. The wind […]

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Dutch Offshore Wind Turbines Too Expensive, Government Cuts Subsidies

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:14:25 +0000

The Dutch don’t like wind turbines anymore. They built 36 offshore wind turbines back in 2006, and had great hopes for them, but now the Dutch government realized they don’t have money to subsidize the 18 cents per kilowatt they did so far, so they’ll cut those subsidies down to 9 to 15 cents, and […]

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Innovative Mechanism Improves Off-Shore Wind Turbines' Safety

Cristi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:17:13 +0000

Markus Mueller and Alasdair McDonald of the University of Edinburgh solved one of the fundamental engineering issues faced by builders of offshore wind turbines. They developed a new electric generator that is much cheaper, lighter and reliable than anything seen up to now in the industry.

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Wave Treader: Joining Wind and Wave Power

Cristi — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:58:31 +0000

By combining wind and wave power, the energy output can be drastically increased. The Wave Treader that enables the mix-up will probably be available on the market by 2011.

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