Pacific H2O http://pacifich2o.com The people and places of the Pacific Ocean Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:06:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Windmills are a good alternate energy source http://pacifich2o.com/?p=16 http://pacifich2o.com/?p=16#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:06:40 +0000 admin http://pacifich2o.com/?p=16 For the whole story go here!
With land based wind turbines being almost universally unpopular among the communities that house them, and offshore models damaging underlying reefs, a new floating turbine designed by a group of scientists and engineers in Norway might be the answer.

StatoilHydro, a division of the oil giant Statoil, recently announced its Hywind floating wind turbine installed about 10 kilometers off the coast of Karmoy, Norway in June 2009 is a success.

As a result, the company is planning to test an entire farm of Hywind turbines in Norway, and is looking to install more test farms in rough-water areas like Scotland and Maine.

The Hywind turbine is not a completely new type of wind turbine mind you, but an innovative modded version of an existing wind turbine already manufactured by Siemens. StatoilHydro claims that it’s the world’s first large-scale floating windmill.

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