IN DEPTH: Read the wild wind

The giant Neart na Gaoithe, Gwynt y Môr and WindFloat Pacific share a connection that is key to the future build-out of offshore wind: each is being developed with the help of floating Lidar (Flidar).

A Flidar buoy belonging to Fraunhofer IWES at Germany’s Alpha Ventus wind farm
A Flidar buoy belonging to Fraunhofer IWES at Germany’s Alpha Ventus wind farm
Published 8 September 2014, 09:13Updated 27 September 2016, 06:05
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