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World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale
https://newatlas.com ^ | August 22, 2021 | Loz Blain

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Military/Veterans; Science
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1 posted on 08/24/2021 12:18:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
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That’s one hell of a sea bird chopper.

I wonder what the speed at the point of the blade can reach?


2 posted on 08/24/2021 12:21:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red Badger

Wow! That will kill a lot of sea gulls!


3 posted on 08/24/2021 12:22:25 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: Red Badger

So, how much do these cost and what percentage would they be “off grid” (I.e., not spinning)?


4 posted on 08/24/2021 12:22:31 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: EEGator

http://www.myse.com.cn/en/jtxw/info.aspx?itemid=825


5 posted on 08/24/2021 12:22:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

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.


6 posted on 08/24/2021 12:23:35 PM PDT by allendale
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To: erkelly

There’s going to be a Fast Food McSeaGull opening right underneath it.


7 posted on 08/24/2021 12:24:14 PM PDT by Gman
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To: Red Badger

China is beating us in nearly every technology. 10-15 years from now we will be their slaves.


8 posted on 08/24/2021 12:24:34 PM PDT by setter
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You are too optimistic...................


9 posted on 08/24/2021 12:25:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

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


10 posted on 08/24/2021 12:25:44 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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To: Red Badger
242 meter diameter, with blades of 118 meters. If the wind is around 35 mph, or around 56 m/hr the tip of the blade is at ludicrous speed...


11 posted on 08/24/2021 12:27:44 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red Badger

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?


12 posted on 08/24/2021 12:27:51 PM PDT by Obadiah (Truth is treason in an Empire of lies.)
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To: EEGator

LOL!!...................I just watched that last weekend!...........


13 posted on 08/24/2021 12:28:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: setter

Nonsense. Those Chinks can only steal technology and reverse engineer it.


14 posted on 08/24/2021 12:28:54 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Obadiah

This is China. They don’t care..................


15 posted on 08/24/2021 12:29:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

“...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.


16 posted on 08/24/2021 12:29:38 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Obadiah

It’s about how you feel, not actual facts.


17 posted on 08/24/2021 12:30:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: setter

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.


18 posted on 08/24/2021 12:31:12 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Red Badger

There are dozens around Lansing, MI and they are an eyesore.


19 posted on 08/24/2021 12:31:38 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: Red Badger

How much noise does this pile of Obama make ?


20 posted on 08/24/2021 12:31:45 PM PDT by butlerweave
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