Posted on 08/24/2021 12:18:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
The bigger the wind turbine, the better the production and the economics. Hence, they're scaling up to ludicrous proportions.MingYang Smart Energy
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China's MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE's monstrous Haliade-X. The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall (794-ft) behemoth capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year service life.
The stats on these renewable-energy colossi are getting pretty crazy. When MingYang's new turbine first spins up in prototype form next year, its three 118-m (387-ft) blades will sweep a 46,000-sq-m (495,140-sq-ft) area bigger than six soccer fields.
Every year, each one is expected to generate 80 GWh of electricity. That's 45 percent more than the company's MySE 11.0-203, from just a 19 percent increase in diameter. No wonder these things keep getting bigger; the bigger they get, the better they seem to work, and the fewer expensive installation projects need to be undertaken to develop the same capacity.
The overall result should be a drop in offshore wind energy production prices – a sorely needed drop, too. Current levelized costs of energy, as estimated by the US Energy Information Administration for new energy generation assets going live in 2026, place offshore wind as the most expensive way of generating a megawatt-hour right now, at US$120.52, where ultra-supercritical coal is more like $72.78 and standalone solar is around $32.78 before subsidies.
Obviously, wind fills in gaps that solar can't, and it'll be a crucial part of the energy mix going forward. Scaling the industry up with these mammoth turbines is the key reason why industry experts are predicting that the cost of offshore wind will drop by between 37 and 49 percent by 2050, as reported by Renew Economy.
MingYang says the MySE 16.0-242 is just the start of its "new 15MW+ offshore product platform," and that it's capable of operating installed to the sea floor or on a floating base. The full prototype will be built in 2022, installed and into operation by 2023. Commercial production is slated to begin in the first half of 2024.
Source: MingYang Smart Energy
The MySE 16.0-242 will be the world's biggest offshore wind turbine, with each unit capable of powering 20,000 homes MingYang Smart Energy
That’s one hell of a sea bird chopper.
I wonder what the speed at the point of the blade can reach?
Wow! That will kill a lot of sea gulls!
So, how much do these cost and what percentage would they be “off grid” (I.e., not spinning)?
Well at least the fish will get fed a new source of protein from birds. Wonder how well those big blades will do with lightening strikes and fierce storms.
There’s going to be a Fast Food McSeaGull opening right underneath it.
China is beating us in nearly every technology. 10-15 years from now we will be their slaves.
You are too optimistic...................
And when they are done, you have to chop up the blades and bury them in the sand.
Hazardous materials.
Non-recyclable.,
Nut it’s guh-reeeeeen!!!!1
Someone please tell me what one does with the turbine blades after their useful life span. My understanding is that they cannot be recycled or reused, they can only bury them in large pits where they will stay for thousands of years, but hey, it’s “clean energy”, right?
LOL!!...................I just watched that last weekend!...........
Nonsense. Those Chinks can only steal technology and reverse engineer it.
This is China. They don’t care..................
“...capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year service life.”
Wouldn’t bet my life on that.
Wouldn’t even bet a good hamburger.
It’s about how you feel, not actual facts.
I bet there is no discussion of “social justice” math or other stem type classes. I also bet that engineering students in China spend very little time if any on CRT.
There are dozens around Lansing, MI and they are an eyesore.
How much noise does this pile of Obama make ?
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