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Float Your Wind Turbines To Save and Increase Production

Seeded on Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:00 AM EST
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Researchers have begun to show that a floating axis wind turbine (FAWT) could in fact generate cheaper energy than the more standard offshore horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT).

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As shown in the image above, there are several types of floating wind turbines available, but researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and University of Tokyo have showed that the installed cost per rated power of the floating axis wind turbine (FAWT) is 50% and 57% of those in the referenced HAWT (horizontal axis wind turbine) and guyed VAWT (vertical axis wind turbine) configurations, respectively.

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Reply#1 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:01 AM EST
nonStitiousZealot

Is it possible that these would absorb some of the energy in the waves to produce power as well as from the wind ?

    Reply#2 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 5:45 PM EST
    Tim S.-560036

    If not in this design, could it be added and adapted to exploit tidal energy too.

      #2.1 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:34 PM EST
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