{"id":5267,"date":"2010-04-02T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:21:41","slug":"innowind-hexicon-create-powerful-modular-wind-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2010\/04\/02\/innowind-hexicon-create-powerful-modular-wind-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Innowind and Hexicon Create Powerful Modular Wind+Wave Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norway’s Innowind and Sweden’s Hexicon are collaborating on a unique floating 60 MW wind farm concept, which is now under review by the UK’s renewable energy industry research giant Garrad Hassan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Innowind<\/a>; which makes these novel turbines, is located in Stavanger, Norway, in what is fast becoming a global center of the new renewable energy sector.<\/p>\n

They believe that they can improve upon the efficiency of the traditional “17th century” three blade model, by utilizing more of the wind’s potential. <\/p>\n

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Their argument is attractive – that about nine tenths of the energy in the traditional model goes to waste.<\/p>\n

“A planned windmill with a diameter of 150 meter occupies alone 17,662 square meters… the blades alone are not more than approximately 1,125 square meters – for all 3.<\/p>\n

This means that at all time when the wind is blowing, 16,530 square meters of potential kinetically brake energy is wasted.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That these 14 round turbines would produce 60 MW means that each round turbine is supplying a whopping 4.28 MW per turbine. While the largest turbine in the world is a 7 MW turbine, standard GE turbines used in most US wind farms are in the 1.5 to 2.5 MW range.<\/p>\n

Hexicon<\/a> is collaborating with Innowind (as well as regular turbine manufacturers) to provide a stable platform for multiple-turbine-platform modules to build off-shore wind farms.<\/p>\n

Their stable hexagonal platform would make repairs and maintenance at off-shore wind farms easier, because they are accessible. Work crews could be docked by boat and helicopters could land on the rigs.<\/p>\n

In addition, wave energy underneath could also be accessed under these floating platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norway’s Innowind and Sweden’s Hexicon are collaborating on a unique floating 60 MW wind farm concept, which is now under review by the UK’s renewable energy industry research giant Garrad Hassan. Innowind; which makes these novel turbines, is located in Stavanger, Norway, in what is fast becoming a global center of the new renewable energy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[2854,968,969,1086,1556,1689,2524],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Innowind.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}