Exotic style equipment

Wind power, along with other renewable energy sources, has replaced fossil fuels, and the world is on the verge of producing incredible wind turbine generators.

Giant propeller

This device was designed by Siemens. Each of the 75-meter-long blades is only a little shorter than the wings of the world's largest Airbus A380 (79.8m).

Carbon fiber wind turbines and gigantic wind turbines will be installed off the UK in 2014.

Siemens is working with DONG Energy to create these huge products. In July 2012, the two companies signed an agreement to build 300 wind turbines with a combined capacity of 1,800 MW in three years.

DONG Energy has also announced the installation of two large 6 MW wind turbines at the end of this year in the Gunfleet Sands area, five miles off the coast of Essex, near the mouth of the River Thames. This is the first large-scale pilot project to achieve offshore wind farms by 2020, gaining at least 18 gigawatts, or 18 percent of the UK's energy needs. The diameter of the two propellers is 154m, the sweeping area of more than 18,600m ² and 6MW has been provided to 6,000 households in accordance with European standards.

Longitudinal wind turbines

Sandia is researching the feasibility of offshore wind power with rotary wind turbines (VAWTs). The US $ 4.1 million fund for the project will carry out research from the beginning of this year and will last for five years. The first two years are computer model design to select the optimal option, the next 3 years will install offshore equipment to consider the efficiency of the collection of energy.

It is expected that the installation and maintenance costs of VAWTs will be lower than the traditional three-axis rotary turbine. However, there are important challenges that need to be addressed to produce large-scale VAWTs, which are two curved blades in complex geometry. This issue is being studied at Iowa State University and IPI Composites. The second problem is the technical solution to circulate the load on the efficient transmission system by positioning the wind direction.

References: Daily Mail