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Re:New Offshore Wind Design: 20% the weight and 30% the pric... by ZeroGravitas on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:21PM (#32793168)
Sounds like a solid plan (the scale model looks better than the 3D renders)

> Why are they getting so big?" he asks. "What's happening is that it installation and maintenance costs are so insane for these turbines, that you'd rather install and maintain one giant one than two medium ones. But those costs don't apply to us. And there's something called the square-cube law; when you double the size of a turbine design, you increase the swept area of the rotor by four times – but the weight goes up eight times, because you're doubling the height, width and length of every part in three dimensions. So it's actually a losing proposition to go too big for us. We're probably going to find our sweet spot with the lowest cost at somewhere around 7-8 megawatts."

But, seems like they're a pretty small outfit and have no actual business as yet.

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