Mingyang Smart Energy, maker of the world's largest wind turbines, has just unveiled its latest gigantic floating offshore wind turbine creation. The OceanX is a two-headed, deep-water behemoth ...

Floating wind farms offer a solution to harness stronger winds in deeper waters where traditional fixed turbines are not feasible. This technology presents environmental advantages, including less ...

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Old, discarded wind turbine blades don't biodegrade. They do, however, float if sealed. Finnish startup Reverlast is capitalizing on that fact, by taking end-of-use blades and converting them into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Engineers have been tinkering with different offshore wind ...

The University of Maine is contributing to the global effort to improve floating machines to harness wind over deeper offshore waters. Researchers envision turbine platforms floating in the ocean ...

Japan's first commercial floating offshore wind farm has begun operations, using world-first hybrid spar-type floating foundations.

A 2.5 gigawatt (GW) Swedish floating offshore wind farm is going to be paired with an innovative sustainable fish farming system. Sweden-based Freja Offshore, a joint venture between floating offshore ...

A new 20 MW wind turbine designed for floating applications was recently successfully hoisted in China, setting the stage for its testing phase. The state-owned company CRRC has declared this new unit ...

In a nutshell: Rather than sticking with the classic single-rotor design, multi-rotor wind turbines split the action across 2-5 blades. The idea is you can extract more power from the wind this way, ...

China claims to have launched the biggest and most powerful floating offshore wind turbine. The Chinese turbine, which is independently developed and made in China, has a rotor diameter of 260 meters.