Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power

Re:Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cos... by Dylan16807 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:55PM (#37538598)

Addressed how? All I see is a demonstration of tilting up in high winds. The worry here is low winds and high waves.

Or did you mean the "watch one" part is addressed? Sort of, but it's just a video of a render.

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Re:Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cos... by Terr_ on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:14AM (#37542346)

> The worry here is low winds and high waves.

Do you mean that the barely-rotating blade would dip into the oncoming wave-front and get snapped?

I imagine that depends on whether "waves without wind" are likely to occur, and whether we can expect waves sizes/shaped so that they clip the blade itself before their rising edge hits the buoy to bump the blade upwards.

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Re:Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cos... by naasking on Sunday September 17, 2023 @10:14AM (#37545286)

Or hits anything that might be passing by, like a boat.

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Re:Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cos... by Terr_ on Sunday September 17, 2023 @05:01PM (#37549271)

As with lighthouses, I'm pretty sure that would be the boat's fault for recklessly approaching anywhere that close to the giant well-marked stationary field of tethered obstacles in the first place.

If it's someone doing authorized maintenance, they will probably have a rule "do not approach from the blade-side." If the wind is changing that strongly and unpredictably, then it's already a dangerously bad time to do maintenance.

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