Don’t get me wrong, I think this windmill thing, is nonsense. We have some out here in Westport, Washington about 1/4 mile from the beach. They’re eyesores and most times several are not rotating.
My question is, doesn’t the North Atlantic have numerous offshore drilling platforms that withstand the nasty elements? Seems like American engineering could design some windmills that could withstand the weather too?
They don't want it to work. They need chaos so they can be our "savior" by taking our freedoms and money away.
“Seems like American engineering could design some windmills that could withstand the weather too?”
New designs for offshore oil facilities built since 1988 are designed to withstand “100- year Storms,” a designation that includes everything up to Category 5 events. One of those designs is called a Jack up rig. In advance of a storm, the company will direct its rig managers to take on extra ballast water in order to increase the overall stability and weight of the rig on the seafloor and to take advantage of this greater weight and stability to raise the deck platforms higher, improving the rig’s ability to withstand wave heights of up to 60 feet.
As for wind turbines, they are already taller than the oil rigs and they typically face incoming winds and have incredibly stiff blades while they float. But building this type of rigid structure is expensive. Hence the researchers found that blades facing away from the wind are less likely to hit the turbine tower during high winds. This way, the blades don’t have to be constructed to be so heavy and stiff. Instead, they can be lightweight and more flexible, which also makes them less expensive.
Like palm trees, the blades will gently bend during strong winds rather than break. But this design is not currently on all the turbines out there and is still “on the black board” at places like the University of Virginia, the University of Texas at Dallas, the Colorado School of Mines and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. So there still are vulnerable turbines out there. Wind turbine platforms is a relative new item. Maybe in time. But the season is just getting starting. And the first of the ocean placed wind turbines weren’t placed until 2019 near Spain. So it’s kind of new.
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