sea wind Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:22:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 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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