Guardian: British, American and Norwegian engineers are in a race to design and build the holy grail of wind turbines – giant, 10MW offshore machines twice the size and power of anything seen before – that could transform the global energy market because of their economies of scale. Today, a revolutionary British design that mimics a spinning sycamore leaf and which was inspired by floating oil platform technology, entered the race. Leading engineering firm Arup is to work with an academic ......
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United Kingdom: Engineers race to design world’s biggest offshore wind turbines
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 26th, 2010
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