Offshore wind turbines ready for test

The press this week was full of this photo

showing the massive floating turbines being readied for a test off of Fukushima.

A few weeks ago we saw this picture of the massive chains that will be used for moorings.

The project sponsors and government certainly like the symbolism of a big offshore project near the Fukushima reactors.  They have named it "Fukushima Mirai" -- the future of Fukushima.

Let us hope that the project works out from both a technical and a cost/performance standpoint, and maybe even manages to utilize the 500kV transmission lines running between the Fukushima Daiichi reactors and the Tokyo region.

The Fukushima offshore wind project website is now accessible here.