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The Swedish company Hexicon, which has developed an innovative type of floating wind farm or two, may soon supply Malta with 9% of its electricity needs via one of these floating wind farms.
Floating Wind Farm for Malta
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:17 PM EST
Article Source: CleanTechnica - By Zachary Shahan- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
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It’s also projected that this project would create electricity at a more competitive rate than currently dominant oil-based power generation on Malta.
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#1 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:18 PM ESTGood article Par..hope that it works as they hope.
There was an article on Japan doing the same.
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#2 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:47 PM ESTI'm with you.. I hope it works... ..of course something like that would probably never work on our coastlines here.. too much surf.. especially when tropical storms and hurricanes are around...
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But don't most countries have storms... surely the sea is never that reliably calm anywhere - even in Malta? There can't be many seas that are that predictable.
Interesting project . It appears that these new turbines are diffuser type devices which might explain their large output . Still , it sounds like their power rating is inflated .
#3 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:24 PM ESTnSZ,
It looks like there are about 30 VAWT under the 6 large HAWTs. Each of those could easily be 100 kW turbines for about another 3 MW.
The following link shows another version of the design . I'm not sure which one has the rating of 54 Mw .
http://bluelivingideas.com/2010/04/02/innowind-hexicon-create-powerful-modular-wind-farms/
My understanding of the shrouds is that they increase the capacity of the turbine by half again. So a 3 MW turbine would be a 4.5 MW turbine just by adding the shroud. That is pretty close to what I have been seeing lately for the high end ratings of typical new installation for turbines.
#4 - Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:00 PM ESTShrouds do increase the power output . There are many factors involved in how much of an increase it produces . The problem is that the specs have to be very tight .
The problem is that the specs have to be very tight .
Something I am quite confident the engineers at these firms are very capable of achieving. But, don't get me wrong, it is a valid question to ask. I am interested in seeing the actual output compared to the predictions. I like empirical data.
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