The world's largest floating wind turbine on the coast of Fukushima Bashny.Net

Engineers in Japan established the world's largest floating wind turbine the height of a structure which is 344 feet (104,8 m), according to estimates it will be able to withstand 65-foot waves, and even tsunamis.

Turbine 7 megawatts attached to the seabed using four 20-ton anchor about 12 miles from the coast of Fukushima.



Its installation was postponed four times due to successive typhoons in the region. However, one of the main engineers of the project, Katsunobu Shimizu (Katsunobu Shimizu), said that the turbine, about the same height as the London St. Paul's Cathedral, will be able to withstand even the most extreme conditions.





"Turbine and anchors designed to withstand 65-foot waves," said Shimizu. "Besides, here we can get a tsunami with a height of 32 feet. That's why chains deliberately weakened".

"If a big wave will push the turbine up, down or to the side, loose chain connecting the structure with the seabed, will give her freedom of movement without damage," he explains.

The country is still recovering from the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that occurred in March 2011, which caused damage to nuclear power plants Fukushima.

Before the earthquake about 30% of all energy produced in the country nuclear power plants. Now Fukushima has been decommissioned and all 48 nuclear reactors of Japan have been disabled.

Given the small number of natural resources, fossil fuel imports in Japan since the Fukushima disaster, according to experts, will cost about $ 80 billion, in line with the government's report of October last year.

Floating turbine was part of a pilot project funded by the Japanese government, the purpose of which was to create the world's first floating wind farm, connecting the three floating turbines and one floating power plant.

The project is also exploring the commercial viability of wind energy as alternatives to nuclear, and also checks the possible potential of the industry, which in the future Japan will be able to export abroad. published

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