Collaborate Disseminate
Since sound is the primary sense used by most ocean life, disruptions to the natural noise levels in the ocean from human activities can be particularly problematic for marine life. …read more Continue reading Keeping the Noise Down Under the Sea
As we’ve discussed many times before, offshore wind represents an enormous opportunity for clean energy, but some of the best resources are out in deep water, where sinking a shaft straight into the sea bed becomes prohibitively expensive and difficult… Continue reading Pivoting arms could stabilize massive floating offshore wind turbines
The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) is upping the ante on offshore wind, announcing it’s building the largest and most powerful wind turbine ever, making a peak 18 megawatts with an enormous 260-meter (853-ft) diameter on its three-bladed rotor.
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Continue reading World’s new largest wind turbine sweeps 10 football fields per spin
Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting to build a full-scale demonstrator of its innovative … Continue reading Full-scale 5-MW floating “pyramid” wind turbine will be put to the test
Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting to build a full-scale demonstrator of its innovative … Continue reading Full-scale 5-MW floating “pyramid” wind turbine will be put to the test
A prototype wind turbine has recorded an extraordinary single-day renewable energy production total, bringing in a massive 359 megawatt-hours in a 24-hour time period. To get there, it had to operate over its rated capacity, essentially all day long.Co… Continue reading Record energy haul: Offshore prototype operates over capacity for 24 hrs
We’ve been banging on a bit about floating offshore wind turbines lately, but with good reason. Take a look at the US Energy Information Administration’s projected Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) figures for 2027, on page 9 of this report. Deep offshor… Continue reading 1-MW floating vertical axis wind turbine to be deployed off Norway
Norway’s World Wide Wind has a radically different take on offshore wind power. These floating, vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) feature two sets of blades, tuned to contra-rotate – and they promise more than double the output of today’s biggest tur… Continue reading Contra-rotating floating turbines promise unprecedented scale and power
Harvesting wind energy is an important part of the renewables mix, but when those huge turbine blades reach the end of their working lives, they could end up as waste in landfill. Siemens Gamesa has developed a recyclable blade that can be used to crea… Continue reading Wind turbine fitted with recyclable blades starts generating electricity
Norway’s Argeo has launched the first uncrewed survey and inspection vessel based on the Mariner X platform from Maritime Robotics. The Argus is expected to undertake mapping and inspection operations for offshore wind projects.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Argus unmanned surface vessel designed for accurate ocean mapping