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Curious about what is the upper limit. How much can we go beyond 16 MW before physics laws put a cap on size?

• samstave 3y ago
  We need to figure out how to get things to spin in space really fast - like some piezioelectrical fan blade turbine that takes advantage of the extremes in differential temps? @Twosdai - I was talking about space generators, there is no air. So how get spin, from temperature diffs that can turn a turbine/generator?
  • twosdai 3y ago
    I don't think that it's necessarily speed which is the thing that we should look for. It's how best to convert large amounts of moving air into rational motion. So a large slow moving windmill may generate more power than a smaller faster moving one.
• tda 3y ago
  Last I heard I think 25MW turbines were in some early stage of development. At least that is the biggest my former employer I recall was considering for their latest installation vessel. But I have been out of the loop for a while, so would love to hear an update. The first 14MW was installed quite a few years ago (and it might have been upgraded to 15MW), so this is just a small-ish increase in max size. The big news, foe at least, is that it is Chinese. Siemens, Vestas and GE have some serious competition now it seems