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"The China Three Gorges Corporation has successfully completed what it says is
the world’s largest single-rotor floating offshore wind turbine.
The 16 megawatt (MW) behemoth has been installed upon a semi-submersible
floating platform with a new mooring system that can secure it in waters that
are more than 50 metres deep.
China’s wind turbine manufacturers and energy giants have been competing to
achieve ever greater heights over the past decade, unveiling each year newer
and bigger and more powerful turbines that regularly make headlines for
“world’s largest”.
China Three Gorges (CTG), one of the country’s massive state-owned power
companies, has once again upped the ante, with the installation of the Goldwind
turbine 70 km off the coast of Guangdong Province in the southeast of China.
The turbine measures 270 metres tall to the tip of the blade and boasts a
diameter of 252 metres, yielding a swept area of 50,000 square meters,
equivalent to the area of 7 standard soccer fields.
The single turbine is expected to generate approximately 44.65 gigawatt-hours
(GWh) of electricity each year, equivalent to the needs of 24,000 three-person
households.
The Three Gorges Pilot is the result of several newly developed solutions that
are designed to enable the platform and turbine to withstand the rough offshore
winds and seas, including typhoons measuring up to category 17 and waves
exceeding 20 metres in height."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
