MIT designs giant wind turbines for use at sea
This figure shows (from left to right) an onshore wind turbine, a conventional offshore unit, and the experimental unit used in MIT's concept for a deep-water floating turbine. In each case, the disk indicates the area swept by the turbine blades. The Was
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September 20, 2006 In a flash of the blinding obvious, MIT researchers have once again taken a simple concept and applied liberal lashings of leading edge science and common sense – take the wind turbines that everyone complains about and move them a hundred miles out to sea, where the winds are strong and steady and no-one can see them. The proposed deep water floater-mounted turbine design would be enable much larger turbines than currently in use by land or shallow-water turbines
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