For now of course, it’s just a concept. Norway’s Wind Catching Systems has proposed a floating power grid composed of more than 100 small wind turbines. The company claims that this conceptual power source could produce enough energy for 80,000 European homes. This new wind farm would stand at more than 1,000 feet tall, atop platforms that are anchored to the ocean floor:
A common complaint about wind farms is the space they take up, but Wind Catching Systems' grid scales thins down with its compact design. The small size of the individual turbines makes installation and maintenance easy, with no specialty vessels or cranes necessary. With an estimated shelf life of 50 years, they are also designed to be scalable.
image credit: Wind Catching Systems
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It would have a thousand feet ?So it could walk anywhere it wanted, like straight to metric land, like 194 out of 197 countries in the world did some decades ago ?Do you reckon you could use metric measurements on the WORLD WIDE web, rather than supporting the mental laziness of people in Liberia, Myanmar and the USA, who still use a measurement system based on a British king's body parts ?Metric is easy, it is just like decimal, just like dollars and cents ... the defunct imperial system of measurements is as cumbersome as pounds, shillings and pence ... and guineas !Unbelievable how reluctant you all are in 'The Greatest Country in the World' to move into the future (points to healthcare, electing stupid people to office, using the same actor for many movie roles, allowing drug companies to rort the people, bang, bang, killer guns for everybody, drug laws that cause crime) ... still, you have given us Tesla cars.
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