{"id":648,"date":"2015-06-23T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2019-04-10T20:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:02:47","slug":"fukushima-will-home-biggest-floating-wind-turbine-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/fukushima-will-home-biggest-floating-wind-turbine-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima Will Be Home To The Biggest Floating Wind Turbine on Earth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest floating wind turbine on Earth, which is a 620-foot, 1,500-ton windmill atop a 5,000-ton podium, will soon sit 12 miles from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.<\/p>\n<p>The turbine, set to begin a movement towards green energy in Japan, will generate up to 7 megawatts of electricity, making it not only the largest floating wind turbine in the world but also the most powerful wind turbine in all of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s new turbine features three 270-foot-long blades and can withstand 200 mph winds, as part of the government-sponsored $401 million Fukushima wind farm project.<\/p>\n<p>Since it is tough to build wind turbines on Japan&#8217;s mountain-filled terrain, installing buoyant solar panels and wind turbines on the water that surrounds Japan makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the fact that stronger winds at sea will help increase energy output and eliminate the need to worry about land restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Be on the lookout for more and more similar floating wind turbines to pop up across the world in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest floating wind turbine on Earth, which is a 620-foot, 1,500-ton windmill atop a 5,000-ton podium, will soon sit 12 miles from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The turbine, set to begin a movement towards green energy in Japan, will generate up to 7 megawatts of electricity, making it not only the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[386,383,385,384],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}