US and UK to collaborate on 'floating' wind turbines
Source: The Guardian
US and UK to collaborate on 'floating' wind turbines
The new technology could allow Britain to harness the consistently
higher wind speeds available over deeper water
By Staff and Press Association
guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 April 2012 12.15 BST
The UK and US will work together to develop "floating" wind turbines to harness more offshore wind power at a potentially lower cost, the government said on Monday.
Before this week's clean-energy meeting of ministers from 23 countries in London, the government announced it will collaborate with the US in developing wind technology to generate power in deep waters that are currently off-limits to conventional turbines.
In order to exploit the UK's huge wind resource, which accounts for about one-third of Europe's offshore wind potential, new technology is needed to access waters between 60 and 100 metres deep: too deep for turbines fixed to the seabed, but where wind speeds are consistently higher.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/23/us-uk-floating-wind-turbines
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...will look something like this. Note the use of ballast and anchors.
More on the topic at http://offshorewind.net/Other_Pages/Turbine-Foundations.html
