In their endless quest to capture the most reliably energetic winds, engineers are now moving further out into the ocean, to areas of deeper water where especially strong winds are known to blow.
“We’re coming to a new age,” says Seamus Garvey at the University of Nottingham, who has designed yet another type of floating wind turbine. It looks a bit like a triangular pyramid leaning sharply to one side, with a rotor at the apex.
As this technology develops, he says we might see the introduction of “body yawing” floating turbines. These are turbines that are able to swivel on the sea surface in order to orient themselves better and catch the full force of the wind. Existing onshore and offshore turbines can rotate the machine housing at the top of their towers, the nacelle, to do this.
Durability is going to be key, though, if floating turbines are to survive in the squally waters currently earmarked for them. “These are incredibly hostile places,” says McDonald. “You are trying to engineer against the forces of God, almost.” Assuming all the engineering hurdles can be overcome, there’s still the question of how these gigantic offshore installations will affect wildlife and ocean ecosystems., considered various possible risks to marine life from the floating wind farms of the near future.
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