A Chinese company is planning to harvest electricity from hurricanes or sea storms with the world’s largest wind turbine. This huge platform named ‘Ocean X’ was built by the Chinese company ‘Mingyang Smart Energy’., Which is able to collect electricity even during category 5 hurricanes. It will be able to provide more than 16 megawatts of electricity. Launched in China’s southern port city of Guangzhou, this turbine has an annual production capacity of 54,000 megawatts., That is enough to supply electricity to 30,000 households in China. News from bdnews.
In 2020, the company first tested a prototype 10th the size of the turbine. And the main ‘OceanX’ platform was completed in April this year. A turbine has a counter-rotating rotor, Each of which has massive blades about six hundred feet in diameter. It is placed in V–On a structure of shape. Ultra–hi–This mega platform, built with performance concrete, weighs about 16,500 tons and has a depth of 35 meters under water (115 feet) more
The Mingyang company said on its website, This turbine platform is able to survive and generate electricity even in Category 5 hurricanes. It can even withstand wind speeds of up to 260 kilometers per hour and waves as high as ten stories. A hurricane of this magnitude can cause massive damage. Storms of this magnitude hit residential areas, Trees can even uproot power poles. Conventional wind turbines struggle in such harsh weather conditions, As a result of which electricity fluctuates and the power generator is damaged prematurely. The company claims that its new design is such an ‘adaptive system’, This ensures safety and stability even in extreme typhoon-like conditions. The company expects, It will ‘open a new era in harvesting energy from the ocean’.
These turbines could be important in generating electricity in parts of coastal cities such as Guangzhou, Where strong typhoons hit regularly. Especially in an era of climate change and energy-based storms. One of the national electricity consumption by 2025–China aims to supply a third through renewable sources. By providing thousands of families with the opportunity to use environmentally friendly electricity, this wind turbine is about 56 thousand tons of carbon dioxide–It can also help reduce oxide emissions, reports The Independent.
Source: dainikazadi.net
