Aikido Technologies, an offshore floating wind technology startup based in San Francisco, California, has successfully demonstrated the assembly of its unique folding platform in under 40 hours.
In recent years, major economies like the U.S. have laid out goals to ramp up floating wind installations. Disrupting the wind power industry is a colossal task that will require significant ...
The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above the waves in the Gulf of Maine – roughly as tall as New York City’s famed 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The ...
Norway's World Wide Wind has a radically different take on offshore wind power. These floating, vertical-axis wind turbines feature two sets of blades, tuned to contra-rotate – and they promise more ...
A 2.5 gigawatt (GW) Swedish floating offshore wind farm is going to be paired with an innovative sustainable fish farming system. Sweden-based Freja Offshore, a joint venture between floating offshore ...
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Most of the world's greatest wind power resources are offshore – often a long way offshore, where the water's so deep that it's impractical to build typical fan-on-a-stick wind turbines with bases ...
Zein Sadek and Natalie Frank perform experiments in the wind-wave facility at Portland State University to observe/characterize the flow behind an offshore floating wind turbine using particle image ...
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The expanding field of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) has seen dynamic advancements in design and performance evaluation, driven by the necessity to harness wind resources in deeper waters ...
The makers of wind turbines have, for many decades now, labored to harness one of the mightiest forces in nature. They’ve moved from onshore to offshore sites, building ever larger rotors with huge ...
Subsea Collector connects multiple wind turbines in a star configuration to floating wind’s first subsea power distribution system. Source Aker Solutions Shoreline Wind’s simulation solutions help ...