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With land based wind turbines being almost universally unpopular among the communities that house them, and offshore models damaging underlying reefs, a new floating turbine designed by a group of scientists and engineers in Norway might be the answer.

StatoilHydro, a division of the oil giant Statoil, recently announced its Hywind floating wind turbine installed about 10 kilometers off the coast of Karmoy, Norway in June 2009 is a success.

As a result, the company is planning to test an entire farm of Hywind turbines in Norway, and is looking to install more test farms in rough-water areas like Scotland and Maine.

The Hywind turbine is not a completely new type of wind turbine mind you, but an innovative modded version of an existing wind turbine already manufactured by Siemens. StatoilHydro claims that it’s the world’s first large-scale floating windmill.

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