siemens wind turbine Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:02:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Siemens Developed World’s Biggest And Lightest Offshore Wind Turbine https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siemens-developed-worlds-biggest-and-lightest-offshore-wind-turbine-20121121/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siemens-developed-worlds-biggest-and-lightest-offshore-wind-turbine-20121121/#respond Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:02:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28575 Siemens presented their latest offshore wind turbine model, which is the biggest one ever made. It produces 6MW of power, which is about 25,000 times more than their original mode. It is equipped with 75 meter turbine blades and has the world’s biggest rotor with a diameter of 154 meters. Each turbine has the capacity […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siemens-developed-worlds-biggest-and-lightest-offshore-wind-turbine-20121121/feed/ 0 28575 Siemens Introduces New Type of Direct Drive Systems for Wind Turbines to Replace Faulty Gearboxes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siemens-direct-drive-system-gearbox-20100429/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siemens-direct-drive-system-gearbox-20100429/#respond Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:37:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7501 Because they are bulky and cause a lot of troubles, wind turbine gearboxes are to be shunned out of the wind power industry slowly but surely, being replaced with direct drive systems. These are indeed bigger, but the nacelle's overall weight is lower, and the chances of breaking up are also reduced, because of the reduced complexity.

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