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Granted, it's a factor 2.5 difference in height, 1.6 in rotor radius and 6 in rated power, but Equinor operates a floating wind farm with 100 meter hub height o
by marvin 5y ago
Granted, it's a factor 2.5 difference in height, 1.6 in rotor radius and 6 in rated power, but Equinor operates a floating wind farm with 100 meter hub height outside of Scotland.
(I'm assuming that the article reported hub height and not the highest point of the rotor).
https://www.equinor.com/en/what-we-do/floating-wind/how-hywind-works.html https://www.equinor.com/en/what-we-do/floating-wind/how-hywi...
- pjc50 5y agoInteresting: not a wide base, but instead a very deep one. Build the tower twice as tall, fill the bottom with rocks: now you have a structure whose center of gravity is very low, and the hollow column gives it buoyancy. Hundred meter turbine just bobbing in the water like a cork.
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