(14 May 2024)
US OFF SHORE WIND
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Orono, Maine – 27 March 2024
1. Various of floating turbine being tested in indoor pool at the University of Maine
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, executive director, University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center:
"The federal government declared floating wind as the fifth U.S. earth shot, as a key technology to meet our climate goals, as well as our energy goals as a country."
3. Various closeups of floats on floating turbine in indoor pool
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, executive director, University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center:
"We have over 50 people, engineers, working on floating wind in this laboratory. So it’s a – it’s the largest concentration of floating wind engineers in the country, and one of the biggest in the world."
5. Habib, center, looking at information on laptop computer with colleagues
6. Close of hand pointing at computer screen
7. Wide of engineers near indoor pool with floating wind turbine
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, executive director, University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center:
"So it’s a key technology for the future of, of, of humanity as we, as we combat climate change."
9. Wide of indoor pool showing floating turbine and fans
10. Mid of fans
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, executive director, University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center:
"With 3% of the Gulf of Maine surface area, we can heat every home and drive every car in Maine. That’s how big the resource is. Now let’s move that to the country as a whole, okay? In the United States, there’s enough offshore wind capacity within 50 miles of the U.S. course – shores – to power of the country four times over."
12. Wide of floating turbine in pool
13. Close of equipment creating waves in indoor pool
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, executive director, University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center:
"So, so it could be an important part of our future to combat climate change because of how big that resource is."
15. Mid of engineer working on computer
16. Close of computer screen showing model of floating turbine. UPSOUND: "So this is actually how we’re able to track the sixth degree of freedom motion."
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Viselli, manager of offshore model testing and structure design at University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center:
"It’s a very careful, carefully designed wave basin, we call it. We have 16 paddles on one end that can simulate the real ocean at scale. We typically test at 170 to 150 scale. Everything’s shrunk down by a factor of 50 or 70, all the dimensions. And we can replicate the waves as well at this scale. And you can prove out the system from a safety perspective. Is it moving too much? What are the loads in the tower? What are the loads in the mooring lines? You could – you can measure these things and then that gives a level of technical confidence."
18. Engineer working at computer
19. Close of computer screen showing floating turbine model. UPSOUND "It gives you an overlay of the markers and everything on it. So it’s just really neat to see."
20. Anthony Viselli near box filled with mooring lines
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Viselli, manager of offshore model testing and structure design at University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center:
22. Wide of floating turbine in pool
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Orono, Maine – 23 April 2024
24. Sign at entrance to University of Maine campus
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