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That blade makes me nervous if low wind speed and large waves is a combination that ever happens. It would be interesting to watch one as wind speed increases,

That blade makes me nervous if low wind speed and large waves is a combination that ever happens. It would be interesting to watch one as wind speed increases, it’s a neat design.

belter 3y ago
Addressed at 32 seconds in the video here: https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/this-tilting-one-blader-floating-wind-turbine-just-got-a-japanese-shipping-giant-on-board/2-1-1515923 https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/this-tilting-one-blader-fl...
- tetris11 3y ago
  I find the images more informative than the video: https://newatlas.com/energy/touchwind-floating-wind-turbine/#gallery:1 https://newatlas.com/energy/touchwind-floating-wind-turbine/... As for low wind and high choppy waves, is that possible? My naive understanding is that these come during storms where it is typically windy
  - olivermuty 3y ago
    Waves can travel a long way from a storm, but they wont be very choppy without wind no.
  - ska123 3y ago
    > I find the images more informative than the video Said no one ever
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  Addressed how? All I see is a demonstration of tilting up in high winds. The worry here is low winds and high waves. Or did you mean the "watch one" part is addressed? Sort of, but it's just a video of a render.
  - Terr_ 3y ago
    > The worry here is low winds and high waves. Do you mean that the barely-rotating blade would dip into the oncoming wave-front and get snapped? I imagine that depends on whether "waves without wind" are likely to occur, and whether we can expect waves sizes/shaped so that they clip the blade itself before their rising edge hits the buoy to bump the blade upwards.
    - naasking 3y ago
      Or hits anything that might be passing by, like a boat.
      - Terr_ 3y ago
        As with lighthouses, I'm pretty sure that would be the boat's fault for recklessly approaching anywhere that close to the giant well-marked stationary field of tethered obstacles in the first place. If it's someone doing authorized maintenance, they will probably have a rule "do not approach from the blade-side." If the wind is changing that strongly and unpredictably, then it's already a dangerously bad time to do maintenance.

That blade makes me nervous if low wind speed and large waves is a combination that ever happens. It would be interesting to watch one as wind speed increases, it’s a neat design.

belter 3y ago

Addressed at 32 seconds in the video here: https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/this-tilting-one-blader-floating-wind-turbine-just-got-a-japanese-shipping-giant-on-board/2-1-1515923 https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/this-tilting-one-blader-fl...

tetris11 3y ago
I find the images more informative than the video: https://newatlas.com/energy/touchwind-floating-wind-turbine/#gallery:1 https://newatlas.com/energy/touchwind-floating-wind-turbine/... As for low wind and high choppy waves, is that possible? My naive understanding is that these come during storms where it is typically windy
- olivermuty 3y ago
  Waves can travel a long way from a storm, but they wont be very choppy without wind no.
- ska123 3y ago
  > I find the images more informative than the video Said no one ever
Dylan16807 3y ago
Addressed how? All I see is a demonstration of tilting up in high winds. The worry here is low winds and high waves. Or did you mean the "watch one" part is addressed? Sort of, but it's just a video of a render.
- Terr_ 3y ago
  > The worry here is low winds and high waves. Do you mean that the barely-rotating blade would dip into the oncoming wave-front and get snapped? I imagine that depends on whether "waves without wind" are likely to occur, and whether we can expect waves sizes/shaped so that they clip the blade itself before their rising edge hits the buoy to bump the blade upwards.
  - naasking 3y ago
    Or hits anything that might be passing by, like a boat.
    - Terr_ 3y ago
      As with lighthouses, I'm pretty sure that would be the boat's fault for recklessly approaching anywhere that close to the giant well-marked stationary field of tethered obstacles in the first place. If it's someone doing authorized maintenance, they will probably have a rule "do not approach from the blade-side." If the wind is changing that strongly and unpredictably, then it's already a dangerously bad time to do maintenance.