Floating wind turbine of 7 MW anchored off Fukushima today

[bananas]

Source: SeeNews

A 7-MW MHI SeaAngel turbine was anchored on Wednesday off the Japanese coast under the Fukushima floating offshore wind farm demonstration project (Fukushima FORWARD).

The oil pressure drive-type floating wind turbine is expected to commence demonstration operation later in 2015, joining a 2-MW machine which has been online since November 2013. Next year, the third and last piece of the demonstration project will fall into place with the floating of a 5-MW Hitachi turbine.

Finally... The world's largest floating offshore wind turbine has just been anchored outside #Fukushima! #milestone pic.twitter.com/rowtsTyrDD
— Johan Sandberg (@JohanSSandberg) July 29, 2015

All in all, the project consortium will aim to expand the scheme to 1 GW by the end of the decade, when it will use a total of 140 floating offshore wind turbines, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said. The project is sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

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[TexasProgresive]

1. Fukushima did you say? Does it glow in the dark?

Yes, I am twisted. I hope to see more of this kind of thing in the US- I am getting older by the minute so they need to get on the stick!

[bananas]

2. Japanese TV news story (in Japanese)

Video and text news story in Japanese:
http://www.realplay.com/channels/tbsnewsi/synopses/213298?hl=ja

[7962]

3. That thing doesnt look very stable!

[Mnemosyne]

4. More stable than the nuke plant. nt

[The Second Stone]

5. But renewables can never replace nuclear and coal

or so I've been told. The unpossible just happened. 1000 of these will replace the whole Fukashima plant. That is not allowed!!!!

[-none]

6. 1000 of them, huh?

Any shipping lanes around there?

[FBaggins]

7. It would take much more than 1,000 of them

And even that 1,000 would be more than ten times the size of the largest offshore windfarm currently operating in the world or under construction.

[The Second Stone]

8. worldwide there will be a million of these in 100 years

at least.

[Angleae]

9. In 100 years it will be fusion reactors everywhere.

These things are just a stopgap measure until then.

[The Second Stone]

11. they will run on banana peels and we will have hoverboards!

just don't cross the beams.

[FBaggins]

10. Not a chance

They only last about 20 years, so just maintaining that number would take 50,000 new units per year.

That's an annual production roughly 20-25 times as large as the total number of offshore units installed in history combined... and that's before accounting for capacity...

... let alone somewhere to put them all.