Significant research efforts are now being directed at floating offshore wind turbines. The main challenge posed by floating wind turbines is the high construction and installation costs of the substructure, which make it too expensive for commercial exploitation in the … Read More
With floating platforms, offshore wind cost set to plunge
Floating wind turbines offer huge falls in the cost of offshore wind power and could be generating power in UK waters at well under the cost of new nuclear by 2020, provided adequate support. Source: http://www.theecologist.org/
Concrete Floating Turbine Economizes Wind Power
Under the guidelines of AFOSP, Climent Molins and Alexis Campos of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, present Windcrete, a floating cylindrical base that has a concrete, rather than steel, structure. They claim … Read More
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