00:02So, Anna, what do you have in store for us?
00:07Checking some U.S. solutions.
00:09Don't forget that VivaTech, hundreds of world premieres
00:11have never seen before products and solutions.
00:14We are now at the center, Impact Mile,
00:17that's at the EF section where we try to find
00:21sustainable solutions for a future.
00:23And we're talking about energy, how to produce,
00:25how to extract energy in a very sustainable way.
00:28There is here one solution from Norway.
00:31Stian Valentin Knudsen with me from Wild Wide Wind.
00:34You are proposing floating offshore turbines.
00:38Yes. So, you know, the conventional turbines,
00:41they have, you know, it's hard to scale
00:44because they have a top-heavy nacelle
00:46and they have to replicate land to get offshore,
00:51to make it stand still.
00:53And they need very much steel
00:57and they need very, you know, special vessels
01:00and big cranes.
01:01So, what we did is the opposite.
01:03We have the big, you know, heavy part down in the bottom,
01:07then we have a floater,
01:08and then we have a mast,
01:10which this is, you know, inspired by sailboats.
01:13So, this looks like a sailboat in a way.
01:15That's the keel, the heavy part with the generator,
01:18and then the boat, the floater,
01:20and then the sail, the mast.
01:23That's producing up to three times more energy
01:25than normal wind turbines we know.
01:28Yes.
01:28So, this one is a scale model for a 40 megawatt turbine,
01:33but we can even scale to 90 megawatt with this construction.
01:38There is quite a lot of questions,
01:41controversy sometimes with normal wind turbines
01:43in terms of the ecological impact.
01:46Also, for instance, birds who quite often get
01:48just simply killed while being thrown on them.
01:51How does it work with this?
01:53So, this is, you know, for birds,
01:55it's really nice because it's just moving in 4.2 RPM.
02:00So, the birds will see the blades and avoid them.
02:03And in terms of, you know, recyclable,
02:07every material is recyclable.
02:09We have a wooden mast, it's a glue lamp with wood,
02:12and then we have aluminum.
02:13So, everything can you recycle.
02:16Also, the blades.
02:17So, we don't have the conventional blades,
02:19we have aluminum blades.
02:21Why do we need offshore turbines
02:23and not just a normal turbine, wind turbine park
02:27that we can normally find everywhere on our planet,
02:31like on land, I mean.
02:32So, land-based is good,
02:34but, you know, there is a lot of sound
02:36and they don't have, you know,
02:38some places they can't have them
02:40because they have a bit shorter space.
02:43And offshore, 80% of the big winds are offshore.
02:46So, we have to go offshore.
02:48But they don't have any solution for that.
02:51And we have to go floating.
02:53For fixed, it's too, you know, it's not the big winds.
02:56So, 80% is out there.
02:58So, we need to go far out to catch the big winds.
03:01This is the first time we are seeing this prototype.
03:04This is a world premiere here at Vivatech.
03:07What are your next steps now?
03:08So, on the next steps,
03:09we are building a demonstrator in Sweden now.
03:12So, we will put it out in the sea,
03:14in a lake, within three months.
03:17And then we will, and that's 30 kilowatt.
03:20That's 20 meters high.
03:22And then we will move to 1.5 megawatt,
03:25which we will build between 3 and 10 around the world.
03:30And we start that project.
03:32We have already started,
03:33and we will start to build them next year.
03:35And then we will move to 24 megawatt,
03:38and this 40 megawatt within seven years.
03:41The purpose is that, I guess, institutions,
03:44countries buy some of those
03:46and implant them as part of the energy production scheme.
03:49For sure, yes.
03:51Yeah.
03:51So, yeah, that's my goal.
03:54For sure.
03:56Hey, thank you very much.
03:57Just to remind you,
03:59worldwide wind,
04:00that's offshore floating turbines,
04:02presented here for the very first time ever
04:04at Vivatech in Paris.
04:07Thank you so, so much, Anna, of course.
04:09I was just reviewing, actually,
04:11what we have in store for you now.
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