Sentences with phrase «floating ocean wind»

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These maps could make floating ocean wind farms a distinct possibility, according to Tim Liu, QuikSTAT's team science leader at JPL.

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Floating turbines hold huge promise for capturing wind energy over Earth's oceans.

The advantage of having a lower generator and consequently a lower center of gravity helps lower installation costs on floating platforms in the ocean, where wind speed is typically higher than on land, observed Veers.

The OIST design is a hybrid of a kite and a wind turbine: an ocean - current turbine is anchored to seabed with a line and floats in the current while water rotates its three blades.

To avoid capsizing in rough seas, they jettisoned almost all of their supplies; their engine failed, and by the time the winds had calmed, the two were floating far from shore at the mercy of fickle weather and the currents of the Pacific Ocean.

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(They also loudly attacked climate modelers for not reproducing data on ocean cooling (which turned out to be due to some faulty instruments on Argo floats), and then just as loudly promoted results from models that predicted increased wind shear in the Atlantic.)

Instead, floating wind projects are tethered, or moored, by cables to the ocean floor but don't penetrate the surface.

An illustration of potential designs for floating offshore wind projects, which need to be developed in order to generate wind energy off the coast of California and other states along the Pacific Ocean.

«You have to talk about floating wind because the ocean floor is too deep to fix a turbine to it,» said Nancy Sopko, manager for advocacy and federal legislative affairs at the American Wind Energy Associatwind because the ocean floor is too deep to fix a turbine to it,» said Nancy Sopko, manager for advocacy and federal legislative affairs at the American Wind Energy AssociatWind Energy Association.

Seattle - based Trident Winds, a company founded in 2015, for example, submitted an unsolicited proposal to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to put up 100 floating wind turbines in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Morro Bay, Calif..

The floating design will allow Statoil to put wind turbines further out in the open ocean where the winds are much more consistent and powerful.

Another precursor is more floating ice than usual, which reduces the amount of ocean surface exposed to the winds, in turn reducing evaporation.