Comments on: Bigger Is Better for Wind Turbines http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/21/bigger-is-better-wind-turbines/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Dave2020 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/21/bigger-is-better-wind-turbines/#comment-124887 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:27:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39268#comment-124887 “more clean power without the large increases in the amount of material necessary for construction”

Sounds great, but this is not true of bigger HAWTs floating off-shore. Their platforms would need to deal with the top heavy nature of the wind loading – longer blades, taller tower. In addition to that, installation and O&M costs could well increase, at a time when everyone’s desperately searching for ways to make off-shore wind cheaper to install and maintain.

]]> By: ToddF http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/21/bigger-is-better-wind-turbines/#comment-124726 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:19:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39268#comment-124726 This was an important result, thanks Joshua! It is truly amazing what humans can construct when the “will to achieve” is present. I would like to note that for many, it is not “supersizing”, but “right sizing” and the “will to achieve” a life “off the grid” that motivates installing microturbines to power part or all of their own household needs. This trend is very likely going to grow in parallel to the “supersizing” of the big wind farm turbine models.

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