Imagine miles of wind farms producing electricity to power our cities. Can you visualize it?Now imagine the windmills at sea.
One company is testing the dream as you read this. As of June this year, the world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine is live.
Anchored 6 miles off the coast of Norway, the windmill—named Hywind—is beginning a two-year test.
The huge props are attached to a steel cylinder that extends 100 meters beneath the sea’s surface. The cylinder is flooded with water and ballasted with rocks.
The entertaining video at right is an animation that illustrates the process of setting up these leviathans at sea
