Making offshore wind turbines lighter and cheaper to construct.
A new design tool built by Sandia National Laboratories could help accelerate the development of vertical axis offshore wind turbines, afrom the multimission laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration said.
The adoption of these turbines has lagged due to one major drawback, their inability to withstand extreme winds. Unlike horizontal axis turbines that can simply turn away from strong winds, the Darrieus design cannot escape extremely powerful winds. Brandon Ennis, the technical lead for offshore wind at Sandia National Laboratories, had a solution to this problem.
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