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World's first full-scale floating windmill 2.3MW Hywind Statoil

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Uploaded by on Feb 12, 2010

World's first floating wind turbine was towed out into the North Sea 2009. The 2.3MW Hywind was built by Siemens and is now on stream, according to owners Statoil. http://goo.gl/ek8Dj

By 2011 they plan to build a 10MW floating turbine 533 feet tall with a rotor diameter of 475 feet

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  • This is great, now just build more.

  • yes pease the world needs more turbines like this, and less oil...

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  • *cough* Maintenance issues. *cough*

  • This thing would cost as much to build as the freaking Saturn V rocket.

  • @newagemotor THEY ARE FUCKING RICH IT IS SUCSESSFULLY AS FUCK MOORON!!

  • This is fantastic. Now time for a large scale introduction!

  • newagemotor said "It's a petrolium company that's doing it. Make any sense ? "

    Have you considered that the oil companies need new venues to earn their money, and therefore consider wind and wave power as projects?

  • I don't think you realize the size of the structure. They're talking about scaling these up in size to the height of the Empire State building. (not this one in particular)

    watch?v=T70cF5IW-Zg

  • newagemotor "It's a petrolium company that's doing it. Make any sense ? "

    Oil companies think... offshore drilling platforms.

    They have the experience and the equipment necessary.

  • @pgfracing watch?v=EV7QtJ9PKb4

  • A video of the real operation would have been cool.

  • So exactily how much money will the oil companies waste on trying to proove that wind energy won't be good ? Think about it - why are they putting windmills out in deep water ? A floating windmill is bound to have terrible problems. This idea will fail. It's a petrolium company that's doing it. Make any sense ?

  • Geez, these guys are dinosaurs in their construction techniques. Should have floated the whole structure in one and up ended it. Job done.

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