SUMR Wind Mills from US Department of Energy Will Be Taller Than Eiffel Tower (sumrwind.com) 3 points by YashdharaC 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] YashdharaC 4y ago ↗ The SUMR (Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotors) project at US Department of Energy (ARPAE) aims to design extreme-scale blades that are 200 meters long. Such blades can power 50-megawatt wind turbines and will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
[–] Someone 4y ago ↗ A 200m blade length (400m diameter) is quite a leap from what I think currently are the largest wind turbines:- https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind... (220m diameter, 14MW)- https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/11/12/worlds-largest-most-... (222m diameter, 15MW) [–] YashdharaC 4y ago ↗ Yes, they are still in design concept stage I believe and quite sometime from reality.
[–] YashdharaC 4y ago ↗ Yes, they are still in design concept stage I believe and quite sometime from reality.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 21.2 ms ] thread- https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind... (220m diameter, 14MW)
- https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/11/12/worlds-largest-most-... (222m diameter, 15MW)