{"id":127236,"date":"2021-09-04T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T21:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/this-wildly-reinvented-wind-turbine-generates-five-times-more-energy-than-its-competitors"},"modified":"2021-09-04T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T21:26:29","slug":"this-wildly-reinvented-wind-turbine-generates-five-times-more-energy-than-its-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/this-wildly-reinvented-wind-turbine-generates-five-times-more-energy-than-its-competitors","title":{"rendered":"This wildly reinvented wind turbine generates five times more energy than its competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-wildly-reinvented-wind-turbine-generates-five-times-more-energy-than-its-competitors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is where floating wind farms come into play. The world\u2019s first floating wind farm, Hywind, opened in 2,017 almost 25 miles off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland. The wind farm counts six floating wind turbines that are slotted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/figure\/Details-of-Hywind-floating-offshore-wind-turbine_fig16_323118519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">buoyant cylinder<\/a> filled with heavy ballast to make it float vertically. Because they\u2019re only tethered to the seabed with thick mooring lines, they can operate in waters more than 3,000 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>Hywind is powering around 36,000 British homes, and it has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56496355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broken U.K. records<\/a> for energy output. Wind Catching Systems launched the same year Hywind opened. It claims that one unit could power up between 80,000 and 100,000 European households. In ideal conditions, where the wind is at its strongest, one wind catcher unit could produce up to 400 gigawatt-hours of energy. By comparison, the largest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vestas.com\/en\/products\/offshore%20platforms\/v236_15_mw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most powerful wind turbine<\/a> on the market right now produces up to 80 gigawatt-hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where floating wind farms come into play. The world\u2019s first floating wind farm, Hywind, opened in 2,017 almost 25 miles off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland. The wind farm counts six floating wind turbines that are slotted in a buoyant cylinder filled with heavy ballast to make it float vertically. Because they\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}