Michael Burt
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Title: Plenary Talk on Marine floating wind and renewable energy complex: a novel technological paradigm
Biography
Biography: Michael Burt
Abstract
The dramatic growth of energy world consumption and the evolving sustainability awareness and demand, go ‘hand in hand’ and already have considerable impact on world politics and it’s economics. Wind turbine farms strive ever higher, consume ever larger space, with more complex and costlier logistics for their delivery, erection, maintenance and ‘energy crop’ distribution. This paper reports about research and development results concerning a new design- implementation paradigm of Wind and Renewable Energy Harvesting Complex, situated in the Marine Environment on floating mega-platforms. The essence of the new approach may be summarized as follows: 1. compact (wing to wing) wind turbine arrangement on floating mega-platforms, capable of auto-rotating into the wind, with 30÷60 turbines, each. 2. the platform will support additional wave-turbine rows, solar panels, sea-current activated turbines and marine bio-energy farm. 3. the whole complex facility is produced –constructed-assembled in a coastal industrial fabrication plant and sea-transported-towed and moored in its site of function. 4. the platform, a semi –submersible mega-structure array, will be solved to support all energy storage, guide instrumentation, maintenance and energy crop handling. 5. agglomeration of 4÷6 energy generating platforms, when combined, will constitute massive marine power station. 6. the compact, multi-modal, marine renewable ‘blue energy’ power station is solved for stage-completion, rearrangement and relocation, if and when desired. In conclusion: all logistics of the power station, namely: construction, erection, transportation, mooring-anchorage, maintenance, supervision, energy harvesting and its delivery, are highly industrialized, thus raising dramatically its cost-effectiveness and economic attraction.