The world's first offshore wind farm was installed in 1991 off the coast of Vindeby on the Danish island of Lolland. It included 11 turbines with a capacity of 450 kW each, and the project cost 10 ...

Related: Massive new wind turbine design produces more energy “SeaTwirl’s wind turbines use a vertical-axis wind turbine with a tower connected to the sub-sea structure, consisting of a ...

Swedish wind turbine maker SeaTwirl announced today that it’s gotten its first commercial order for its vertical-axis floating wind turbine. The purchase is for a new vertical-axis floating wind ...

[Photo: World Wide Wind] How it works. The concept of vertical axis turbines is not new, but the architecture of this machine—which the company says is patent pending—is radically different.

Installed under traditional wind turbines, they can double the output of electricity from a wind farm while still leaving ...

But vertical axis wind turbines can. ... Take a look at this design for a vertical wind turbine, and this design for a simple, straightforward turbine. The Hackaday Prize2018 is Sponsored by: ...

Vertical-axis wind turbines with their high energy potential, have until now been vulnerable to strong gusts of wind. The explanatory open access paper has been published Nature Communications.

Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are said to be more suited to sites where the wind direction is highly variable. VAWT-X also claims its design makes as little as a quarter of the noise of ...