A Norwegian company is currently developing multi-turbine technology to generate five times the energy as single wind turbines produce in a whole year.
Wind energy is considered the cheapest and quickest way to generate renewable energy. Current wind turbines are built on a single pole design with three gigantic blades. But the new turbines developed by Wind Catching Systems could mark a radical shift in how turbine technology is understood.
Just changing the design was able to elicit these groundbreaking results. The new "Wind Catcher" is designed in a square grid with over 100 small blades. This helps the turbine reach heights of 1,000 feet - thrice as high as traditional turbines.
A floating platform of sorts supports the turbines which are then affixed on the ocean floor and a prototype of this ambitious design could appear before next year. Wind energy is a gamechanger, but 80 per cent of the world's wind blows in deep water bodies, where setting up turbines is difficult.
This radical design change could fix that problem. Offshore wind farms are basically wind farms that are silted into water bodies, to take advantage of high speed winds in these regions. And the trend has caught on.
According to FastCompany, 162 such offshore wind farms are currently operational around the world. But it's not easy to set up such wind farms, for the turbines cannot be installed deeper than 200 feet in the water.
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