MODEC unveils SQWID offshore wind-current Ocean Energy Platform
Aiming to combine two abundant and reliable offshore renewable energy resources, Japan's MODEC has come up with SQWID, "a floating wind and marine tidal power platform that makes use of a Darrieus wind turbine and Savonius current turbine."
Commenting on the potential to generate clean, renewable electricity from winds off the Maine coast, Habib Dagher, director of UMaine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center, said, "We have the equivalent of 150 nuclear power plants worth of wind blowing off the coast of Maine. It only takes two nuclear power plants to power the whole state, that's how big that resource is."
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/07/modec-unveils-sqwid-offshore-wind-current-ocean-energy-platform/
Rather than building enormous tankers to float enormous amounts of environmentally unfriendly fuel from countries we should not be dependent upon, we should be building a shit load of these.
Agreed. Great article. Thanks for sharing.
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Have you ever been to Pikes peak what a wonderful place for a wind generator and solar panel structure.
Most of these ideas are U.S. ideas but manufactured in a foreign country. We give away our technology or the Top 1% does to make Maximum profits for stock holders.