{"id":29422,"date":"2017-08-01T13:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=29422"},"modified":"2017-08-01T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:57:57","slug":"worlds-first-floating-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-first-floating-wind-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s first floating wind farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question:-Recently in which coast place was started to take shape First floating wind farm ?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Thailand<br \/>\n(b) England<br \/>\n(c) France<br \/>\n(d) Scotland<br \/>\n<strong>Answer:- (d)<br \/>\nRelated facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>According to reports dated July 23, 2017, the world\u2019s first full\u2014scale floating wind farm \u2014 is being built off the coast of Scotland.<\/li>\n<li>The technology will enable wind power to be harvested in waters that are too deep for the existing bottom\u2014standing turbines.<\/li>\n<li>The wind farm, known as Hywind, is a trial project which is expected to bring power to 20,000 homes.<\/li>\n<li>The foating wind form is being developed by Norway\u2014based manufacturer Statoil.<\/li>\n<li>The tower, including the blades, measure 175 meters in height, dwarfing Big Ben. Each tower weighs 11,500 tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>Each blade is 75 meters long \u2014 almost the wing span of an Airbus. The blades harness breakthrough software which holds the tower upright by twisting the blades to dampen motions from wind, waves and currents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statoil.com\/en\/what-we-do\/hywind-where-the-wind-takes-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.statoil.com\/en\/what-we-do\/hywind-where-the-wind-takes-us.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-40699979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-40699979<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/science\/worlds-first-wind-farm-being-built-off-scotland-coast\/article9785983.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/science\/worlds-first-wind-farm-being-built-off-scotland-coast\/article9785983.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:-Recently in which coast place was started to take shape First floating wind farm ? (a) Thailand (b) England (c) France (d) Scotland Answer:- (d) Related facts:- According to reports dated July 23, 2017, the world\u2019s first full\u2014scale floating wind farm \u2014 is being built off the coast of Scotland. The technology will enable wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[3119],"class_list":["post-29422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-science-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}