Posted on 08/24/2021 12:18:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
The bigger the wind turbine, the better the production and the economics. Hence, they're scaling up to ludicrous proportions.MingYang Smart Energy
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China's MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE's monstrous Haliade-X. The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall (794-ft) behemoth capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year service life.
The stats on these renewable-energy colossi are getting pretty crazy. When MingYang's new turbine first spins up in prototype form next year, its three 118-m (387-ft) blades will sweep a 46,000-sq-m (495,140-sq-ft) area bigger than six soccer fields.
Every year, each one is expected to generate 80 GWh of electricity. That's 45 percent more than the company's MySE 11.0-203, from just a 19 percent increase in diameter. No wonder these things keep getting bigger; the bigger they get, the better they seem to work, and the fewer expensive installation projects need to be undertaken to develop the same capacity.
The overall result should be a drop in offshore wind energy production prices – a sorely needed drop, too. Current levelized costs of energy, as estimated by the US Energy Information Administration for new energy generation assets going live in 2026, place offshore wind as the most expensive way of generating a megawatt-hour right now, at US$120.52, where ultra-supercritical coal is more like $72.78 and standalone solar is around $32.78 before subsidies.
Obviously, wind fills in gaps that solar can't, and it'll be a crucial part of the energy mix going forward. Scaling the industry up with these mammoth turbines is the key reason why industry experts are predicting that the cost of offshore wind will drop by between 37 and 49 percent by 2050, as reported by Renew Economy.
MingYang says the MySE 16.0-242 is just the start of its "new 15MW+ offshore product platform," and that it's capable of operating installed to the sea floor or on a floating base. The full prototype will be built in 2022, installed and into operation by 2023. Commercial production is slated to begin in the first half of 2024.
Source: MingYang Smart Energy
The MySE 16.0-242 will be the world's biggest offshore wind turbine, with each unit capable of powering 20,000 homes MingYang Smart Energy
Wouldn’t it take tremendous amounts of wind to get that thing going?
The Earth’s ecosystem distributes energy using various atmospheric levels of wind currents and ocean depth levels of sea currents.
Siphon off a high enough percent of that energy distribution and climate change will become a very real unintended consequence.
Recycling the blades is a work in progress. As of today used blades are still taking up plenty of landfill space.
Here is the Green New Deal:
Is this the reason China is drowning from all the Rain ?
And it plays “The East is Red” as it spins.
You probably start it with an internal combustion engine...
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How big is the concrete and steel footing for this thing , as big as an apartment building ?
Already there... Chicom won the bio-fly and propaganda war.
Now, they are waiting for the non-productive residents to die.
Chicom get a ready built country.
Climate is so complex that we don’t accurately know the exact variables and what the changes cause through iteration after iteration.
Models are GIGO.
Aren’t they fiberglass? China will burn them or drop them in the ocean.
Good point.
We’re already their bitch thanks to COVID.
I knew MingYang’s brother Ying
What the heck are we gonna do when these things start slowing the rotation of the earth? A day could last 48 hours ! Its gonna get mighty hot during the da6t and mighty cold at night..
I don’t know about that but I took a meteorology class in college and learned that ocean and atmospheric currents play a crucial role in earth’s Macro and Micro climate balance.
Harvesting that energy flow may have significant effects that are difficult to predict or quantify.
Commanche peak nuclear plant is 2.4 gigawatts.
Wind a solar is a commie plot to make electricity expensive and scarce.
That’s pulling a lot of energy out of the atmosphere. I wonder how much they contribute to climate change? He he he. Takes lots of oil to build and maintain those.
Dang! You guys always beat me to it. :(
I was going to add to that: Knowing those industrious Chinese, they will start a side business selling “sea bird slurry”...!
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