Floating windmill - New concept on testing grounds

Floating windmill - New concept on testing groundsWhat if a windmill floats? Answering the above is a windmill with a turbine spin of 80-metre blades which generates an output of 2.3-megawatt across the southwest coast of Norway floats on the sea.

This floating windmill an invention of Siemens AG was built for Statoil ASA, an energy company based in Stavanger, Norway states how the windmill functions.

It works on a buoyant steel cylinder extending 100 meters below the surface with support of three heavy cables that cling on to the ocean floor.

Aiming at evading the problems caused due to the windmills, this Hywind turbine shows the viability of floating windmill while avoiding some of the regulatory and public-perception problems that come with wind farms on land.

According to the asset manager for Hywind at Statoil, Sjur Bratland, claims that this full-scale floating windmill is operational and working live and has already generated millions of kilowatt-hours altogether. The company has ulterior aims as this device can produce more watts than one can imagine, rather they ought not to do so as they just want to test the floating windmill concept which still is under pilot testing.