Comments on: First Full-Scale Floating Wind Mill http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Back on Track : CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/#comment-673 World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Back on Track : CleanTechnica Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:07:57 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/#comment-673 [...] “First Full Scale Floating Wind Mill”:: CleanTechnica [...] [...] “First Full Scale Floating Wind Mill”:: CleanTechnica [...]

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]]> By: Sarah Lozanova http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/#comment-671 Sarah Lozanova Fri, 30 May 2008 11:28:08 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/#comment-671 I agree that 80 million is very steep, but most pilot projects have a high up-front cost. The manufacture and research costs are disproportionately much higher than a mass produced turbine. One of the goals of the project is to determine how costs can be reduced. To have large-scale use of this technology, the price would have to come down drastically or the potential benefits will never outweigh the costs no matter how strong the winds are. I agree that 80 million is very steep, but most pilot projects have a high up-front cost. The manufacture and research costs are disproportionately much higher than a mass produced turbine.

One of the goals of the project is to determine how costs can be reduced. To have large-scale use of this technology, the price would have to come down drastically or the potential benefits will never outweigh the costs no matter how strong the winds are.

]]> By: Rod Adams http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/#comment-670 Rod Adams Fri, 30 May 2008 07:20:49 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/#comment-670 This will be an impressive engineering feat that is worth following. It will be interesting, however, to determine what the cost of such a machine and infrastructure would be if manufacturing ramped up. $80 million for 2.3 MWe is 15-20 times as costly as a wind turbine placed on land, and I am sure that the maintenance and support costs will also be fundamentally higher because of the need for transportation out to the turbine and the difficulty of doing work high above a potentially moving platform that is surrounded by water. This will be an impressive engineering feat that is worth following.

It will be interesting, however, to determine what the cost of such a machine and infrastructure would be if manufacturing ramped up.

$80 million for 2.3 MWe is 15-20 times as costly as a wind turbine placed on land, and I am sure that the maintenance and support costs will also be fundamentally higher because of the need for transportation out to the turbine and the difficulty of doing work high above a potentially moving platform that is surrounded by water.

]]> By: Rod Adams http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/#comment-17592 Rod Adams Fri, 30 May 2008 07:20:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/first-full-scale-floating-wind-mills/#comment-17592 This will be an impressive engineering feat that is worth following. It will be interesting, however, to determine what the cost of such a machine and infrastructure would be if manufacturing ramped up. $80 million for 2.3 MWe is 15-20 times as costly as a wind turbine placed on land, and I am sure that the maintenance and support costs will also be fundamentally higher because of the need for transportation out to the turbine and the difficulty of doing work high above a potentially moving platform that is surrounded by water. This will be an impressive engineering feat that is worth following.

It will be interesting, however, to determine what the cost of such a machine and infrastructure would be if manufacturing ramped up.

$80 million for 2.3 MWe is 15-20 times as costly as a wind turbine placed on land, and I am sure that the maintenance and support costs will also be fundamentally higher because of the need for transportation out to the turbine and the difficulty of doing work high above a potentially moving platform that is surrounded by water.

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