Scottish Minister for Energy takes a look at FoundOcean

The Think Tank attended the Global Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition (13 - 14th June) in London to support our client FoundOcean, the subsea and offshore grouting specialist for the global energy construction industry.  

We worked with them throughout the event, set up media interviews and arranged for Scottish Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, Fergus Ewing, to visit their exhibition stand which FoundOcean shared with BASF Construction Chemicals.  

The Minister congratulated both companies on the recent Gwynt Y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited contract win and at the same time met with the representatives of RWE, the wind farm owner.

(left to right ) FoundOcean: Keith Miller, Chairman. RWE: Mike Nolan, Gwynt y Môr Procurement Manager and Alastair Gill, RWE npower Renewables. Fergus Ewing, Scottish Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism. BASF: Chris Fletcher, Head of Construction Chemicals - UK & Ireland. FoundOcean: Jim Bell, Managing Director.

Massive Energy-Generating Wind Tower for Japan

Take wind energy; imagine the "traditional" wind mill scenery. Three-sails white giants down to the horizon. This may not happen, as producers are starting to "think big". ZENA Systems is developing a new dimension in wind energy generation, dwarfing all its predecessors. 50 metres in height, the Wind Tower is an ambitious project that compressed wind from any direction using a three-point compression technique.

What is most relevant is that the system apparently would not be constrained by the "Bets limit value theory", which places the maximum efficiency of wind power generators at 59%. Higher values, together with the on-site energy storage of this project, would revolutionise the way in which wind is harvested.

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