Sunday Morning – Disruptive Deepwater Energy Technology
Now this is awesome, well for an engineer anyway. Just the images on their own are great – its like a giant meccano set or an elaborate scale model, love it. But this could also be disruptive.
credit: Siemens AG
German engineering firm Siemens have invested heavily into renewable energy technologies, and their latest investment the “Sea Installer” can install 6MW wind turbines offshore in a water depth of 45 meters.
The self-lifting (yep self lifting, awesome) installs the 154m long wind turbines in the roughest of seas – including the foundations, towers, nacelles and rotor blades for upto 10 wind turbines.
I want one.
Treehugger.com has some more images if your a nerd like me.
Awesome technology~
Thank you for liking my Pollinator post.
It is so important and the world needs to wake up to this fact, before they are all gone~
not a problem, I was in the UK for the last few days and the link between certain pesticides and the declining bee population is a very hot topic at the moment. The bee population has been in decline in the UK for many years now – I’m not sure if anyone has seen the Bee Movie (its a kids movie) but it covers the topic of what happens if the bees don’t pollinate very well.