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Wind energy gets serial

I feel I missed out a bit - I took out a patent on a system which would enable this, but gave it up when everyone seemed happy with the monopile. I was also advocating standard design but was told that every turbine must be tailored to the specific site. But Strabag have the right approach. We have to stop doing wind farms project by project and deploy 1 or 2 5MW wind farms per day, 9 months per year, for the foreseeable future. I actually think a floated tri-pile solution which can adjust itself is perhaps the way to go. Things like this: http://offshorewindpowersystemsoftexas.com/titan_200_deep_offshore_platform can be towed out and placed with no sea bed preparation.

2 May 2012

4:28 pm