Where other mega-turbines moving towards construction, including Clipper’s Britannia, Sway’s floating “spar” and AMSC’s Sea Titan, are all scaled-up variations of conventional three-bladed, tower-based designs, the Aerogenerator X, being developed by a group led by Wind Power Limited (WPL), is a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) with a V-shaped rotor.
Stretching 100 metres into the sky, the machine’s 270-metre wingspan rotates around its base in a motion that mimics a falling sycamore seed.
