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Imagine largest turbine imagine something much larger, more powerful, and cheaper. Inspired by hurricane-surviving palm trees, Sandia National Labs and partners are researching/developing Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR) design with the University of Virginia leading a Dept. of Energy ARPA-E effort to design 50MW single turbines Related Links 1) Vid (42 seconds) showing how they “morph“ to survive high winds: 2) Press Release (also with email and phone contacts and nice graphic) so you know I’m not making it up on 50MW in one single turbine being their goal: 3) Earlier with their aware (almost 4M bucks) and “active“ status listed for grant, again for 50MW: 4) Longer, (2 minute) report so far found on youtube, local TV news -- interview with lead researcher and graduate student assistant on hurricane-wind surviving 50MW turbine worked on: 5) “World’s Largest Wind Turbine Will Be Taller Than Empire State Building“ 6) 7) BEST VIDEO is embedded in the official page: The great 3:19 minute video embedded here is the best, and straight from the source of this video, see:
