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  • 1,000-foot multi-rotor floating Windcatchers to power 80,000 homes each

    06/11/2021 12:16:43 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 69 replies
    https://newatlas.com ^ | By Loz Blain | June 07, 2021
    A single Windcatcher floating offshore grid could power 80,000 European homes at grid-parity pricesWind Catching Systems VIEW 4 IMAGES Norway's Wind Catching Systems (WCS) has made a spectacular debut with a colossal floating wind turbine array it says can generate five times the annual energy of the world's biggest single turbines – while reducing costs enough to be immediately competitive with grid prices. Standing more than 1,000 ft (324 m) high, these mammoth Windcatcher grids would deploy multiple smaller turbines (no less than 117 in the render images) in a staggered formation atop a floating platform moored to the ocean...