Far Offshore Windmills

Windmills, located out to sea over the horizon, where the wind speed is higher and more consistent is the subject of two proposed developments.

Norsk Hydro, Norways second larges oil producer, after three years of research is planning on building a prototype along side one of its oil platforms. The floating windmill would be an upright steel and concrete tube about 660 feet, (200 meters) high with 260 feet (80 meters) protruding above the water and rotor blades 200 feet (60 meters) long.  The 5 megawatt windmills would be anchored to the seabed at three points to keep them stable.  Hydro hopes to deploy a 3 MW prototype in 2007, at a cost of about cost about $23 million (150 million Norwegian crowns).

Thomas Lee has invented a floating wind-hydrogen platform with battery storage.  Several wind turbines are mounted on a floating platform, much like an oil rig.  By storing the energy in batteries it is available continuously or in response to peaks.  His proprietary hydrogen production system does not employ electrolysis, but involves batteries. Not all platforms would necessarily produce hydrogen.The navigable unmanned platform would be controlled remotely and by pulling up it anchors could be navigated out of the way of approaching storms. Lee's company, Stanbury Resources Inc.,has approached U.S. companies for licensing agreements, but has not found much interest.  A large Asian conglomerate and an European group both would like exclusive agreements.

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory did a feasibility study on  floating turbine farms and found that they could be built using existing technology and provide electricity at approximately $0.05/kWh.

"Sea-based windmills could blunt eyesore criticisms", Reuters, November 2, 2005
"Floating offshore wind energy and hydrogen fuel generating company tipping to Europe and Asia", Open Source Energy Network, November 31, 2005

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Windmills, located out to sea over the horizon, where the wind speed is higher and more consistent is the subject of two proposed developments. The floating windmill would be an upright steel and concrete tube about 660 feet, (200 meters) high with 260 feet (80 meters) protruding above the water and rotor blades 200 feet (60 meters) long. The 5 megawatt windmills would be anchored to the seabed at three points to keep them stable. Hydro hopes to deploy a 3 MW prototype in 2007, at a cost of about cost about $23 million (150 million Norwegian crowns).
By storing the energy in batteries it is available continuously or in response to peaks. His proprietary hydrogen production system does not employ electrolysis, but involves batteries. Not all platforms would necessarily produce hydrogen.The navigable unmanned platform would be controlled remotely and by pulling up it anchors could be navigated out of the way of approaching storms.
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European biologists who have studied the technology for a decade say offshore wind is generally environmentally benign, perhaps even more so than land-based wind power.
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