China launches a wind turbine with a 260 meter rotor...

China launches a wind turbine with a 260 meter rotor and an individual capacity of 18 MW, making it the largest and the most powerful wind turbine currently on the market or under development.

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/01/06/18-mw-offshore-wind-turbine-launches-in-china/

Like 7 Jan 2023 at 23:22 | Open on mas.to

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cobratbq - cranky-by-design

@yogthos has anyone heard anything about the economies of scale for wind turbines? Like, if you continue to make this wind turbine bigger, do you get diminishing returns? Are we at the limits already? Is this project of China about space efficiency or generator efficiency?

8 Jan 2023 at 0:08 | Open on mastodon.social

Yogthos

@cobratbq there's actually a good summary of this, TLDR is that bigger is better https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/wind-turbines-bigger-better

8 Jan 2023 at 1:41 | Open on mas.to

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