Queen of England Buys World's Biggest Wind Turbine (7.5 Megawatts!)

I wonder what the max is for a single turbine. Will we see 10-15 megawatt ones with advanced materials in the next few years?

Yes, yes we will see large advancements in wind turbinr technology.

The Chinise are bulding a factory to mass produce
a 1 gig wind turban. The maglev.

I don't give a toss either way on the monarchy but take a look around the Buckingham Palace website and you'll see a number of green initiatives that are in place.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page3718.asp

you aren't going to be seeing any 1 GW turbines coming out if china or anywhere else. Such a turbine's height would be measure in km, and no currently know materials are anywhere near strong enough for that.

Ny the way, do wind farms ever cover the ground beneath the turbines in solar? That'd be an efficient use of land.

One doesn't often get the opportunity to use the phrase
'Go ma'am go' very often but I think it's appropriate to this news!

"The Chinise are bulding a factory to mass produce
a 1 gig wind turban. The maglev."

You are confusing two news-items.

1)A Chinese company wants to build conventional horizontal axis wind turbines with maglev bearings.

2) An American company that claims to be able to build a 1GW turbine. However the only thing they presented to the world is a nice computer generated picture of a blown up Savonius type wind turbine. Savonius type wind turbines are very inefficient. Furthermore, building a wind turbine of this scale with completely new technology is not something a small start-up firm can do. The history of wind energy technology has shown that the only way to get from small to big, is to do all the intermediate steps.

It is very likely that this company is just a fly-trap for naive investors.

"The Chinise are bulding a factory to mass produce
a 1 gig wind turban. The maglev."

You are confusing two news-items.

1)A Chinese company wants to build conventional horizontal axis wind turbines with maglev bearings for the axis.

2) An American company that claims to be able to build a 1 GW turbine. However the only thing they presented to the world is a nice computer generated picture of a blown up Savonius type wind turbine. Savonius type wind turbines are very inefficient. Furthermore, building a wind turbine of this scale with completely new technology is not something a small start-up firm can do. The history of wind energy technology has shown that the only way to get from small to big, is to do all the intermediate steps.

It is very likely that this company is just a fly-trap for naive investors.

Fantastic. Nations used to compete using weapons of war, building ever larger battleships. Hopefully this competition is moving to sustainable technologies, prompting an arms race that will save rather damn our species.

A turbine that large must be quite a site to behold.

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There are materials strong enough to support a km height wind turbine. And that is carbon nano tubes. It is as light as plastic and 50 times stronger than steel. which makes it possible for achieve that.

Hopefully the Queen's turbine will work better than the ones here in Taiwan:

Of the 82 wind turbines that make up Taiwan Power Co's wind-powered energy generation plans, as many as 51 turbines have at one time or another been inoperative.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/06/24/2003415612

There hasn't actually been a "Queen of England" since the year 1603, unless you completely overlook the historic Union of Crowns.

Great article.

Please let me know if it is unacceptable to use this image to discuss and present methods of adding wind power to smart grid applications.

Also, please provide the information to correctly acknowledge the contributor

Thank you

I have read about the meglev before it is not a standard wind mill like we see now.

i love this thing too bad queenie beat me on ebay

wow thats big