Windmills off the Netherlands Coast
The traditional polders in The Netherlands were formed from the 12th century onwards.
The enterprising people of the area pushed back the hungry sea to reclaim land that has been farmed for centuries.
Farmers adapted their agricultural system to lowering soil levels and occasional floods.
They invented new ways of keeping sea and river water out - resulting in the building of hundreds of drainage windmills and later pumping stations to pump water from polders into the rivers and the sea.
Now the people from The Netherlands continue in the vanguard of alternative energy to fossil fuels.
'Space-age windmills'
The future is here as 'space-age windmills' form wind parks off the Netherlands coast.
At 15h00 on 22 May 2015, the 240-hour test phase of the first of 43 wind turbines at offshore wind park Eneco Luchterduinen was successfully completed at Rotterdam in The Netherlands.
The windpark is now generating green energy for the Dutch grid.
Every turbine consist of five sections;
- a tower with a 4.5 m diameter
- gondola weighing 165 tonnes
- three rotor blades with a 112 m diameter
The electricity comes ashore near Noordwijk by means of a 25 km cable buried in the sea bed.
It continues underground for a further 8km to the Tennet high-tension power station in Sassenheim.
It is hoped the wind park will be fully operational in August 2015.
Offshore wind turbines; a wonderful resource of alternative energy to fossil fuels.
Tuhin Bagi
With thanks to Vanoord.com
Image of Dutch windmill
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