A planned supersized floating wind turbine with two spinning heads will generate nearly double the amount of energy as the current record-holder

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-worlds-largest-wind-turbine-will-smash-previous-records/

by scientificamerican

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  2. Next year’s headline: “Triple-headed wind turbine will smash previous records, generating nearly triple the power!”

    Edit: I suppose it would only generate 50% more than a 2-turbine if we extrapolate that 2 heads are double the generation of 1…. but I kid, I kid.

  3. Bigger wind turbines means one failure leads to a much bigger loss in overall capacity. There’s got to be a point where that increased size isn’t worth the loss in project resilience.

  4. This feels a little like cheating for the record. It may be worthwhile, because it allows you to put more generation in a given area, but having two independent 25 MW turbines share the same base so that you can call it a 50 MW turbine doesn’t feel like it should beat a 26 MW turbine. [This image](https://static.scientificamerican.com/dam/m/38ef8f6dacb0e0c1/original/china-floating-turbine_primary_graphics2_d_FULL.png?m=1762815302.459&w=2000) pretty much explains the whole article.

  5. So price per kwh is lower since only one base is made?

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