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By Stanley Reed
On a strip of land at the mouth of the port of Rotterdam is a wind turbine so giant that it is difficult to photograph. The turning diameter of your rotor is longer than two football fields end-to-end. Later models will be superior, than any construction on the continent of Western Europe.
Packed with sensors that collect knowledge of wind speed, power generation and stresses in its components, the giant Dutch vortex is a verification style for a new series of giant offshore wind turbines planned through General Electric. to force cities, supplanting coal-fired or herbal gas power plants that shape the backbone of many electrical systems.
G. E. has still installed one of those machines in seawater. As a newcomer to the offshore wind industry, the company faces questions about the speed and power with which it can increase production to build and install turbine loads.
But turbines have already caught the eye in the industry. A senior executive of the world’s largest wind farm developer called it “a small leap from the newest technologies. “And one analyst said the length of the device and the expected sales “had shaken the industry. “”
General Electric’s prototype for a new offshore wind turbine, Haliade-X, is the never-built.
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