{"id":73530,"date":"2017-10-27T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-worlds-first-floating-wind-farm-is-an-incredible-feat-of-engineering"},"modified":"2017-11-03T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T02:12:43","slug":"the-worlds-first-floating-wind-farm-is-an-incredible-feat-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-worlds-first-floating-wind-farm-is-an-incredible-feat-of-engineering","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s First Floating Wind Farm Is an Incredible Feat of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PUlfvXaISvc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week saw the launch of the world\u2019s first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-41652707\">floating offshore wind farm<\/a>. Located in the North Sea off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, the wind farm consists of five enormous horizontal-axis turbines that together can generate 30 megawatts of electricity. That\u2019s enough to power about 20,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>The wind farm is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/18\/first-floating-wind-farm-scotland\/\">Hywind<\/a>, and it\u2019s been in the making for over 15 years, spearheaded by Norwegian energy firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statoil.com\/\">Statoil<\/a>. Key facts about the turbines and their location include:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/26\/the-worlds-first-floating-wind-farm-is-an-incredible-feat-of-engineering\/#.WfOSJOyhkSY.facebook\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/26\/the-worlds-first-float...Y.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw the launch of the world\u2019s first floating offshore wind farm. Located in the North Sea off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, the wind farm consists of five enormous horizontal-axis turbines that together can generate 30 megawatts of electricity. That\u2019s enough to power about 20,000 homes. The wind farm is called Hywind, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73530","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73656,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73530\/revisions\/73656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}