{"id":493075,"date":"2022-05-23T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493075"},"modified":"2022-05-23T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:11:57","slug":"how-robots-can-help-build-offshore-wind-turbines-more-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-robots-can-help-build-offshore-wind-turbines-more-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"How robots can help build offshore wind turbines more quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invasion of Ukraine has put the US and Europe on a wartime mission to abandon Russian fossil fuels. This series looks at speeding up zero-carbon alternatives by lowering political and financial barriers. Sign up here to get the next story sent to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to attach a million-dollar, 60-ton wind turbine blade to its base is challenging in any circumstance \u2014 getting the angle wrong by even a fraction of a degree could affect the machine\u2019s ability to generate power. Now imagine trying to do it in the middle of the North Sea, one of the world\u2019s windiest spots, with waves swelling around you. It\u2019s like tying a thread to a kite at the beach and then trying to put it through the eye of a needle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invasion of Ukraine has put the US and Europe on a wartime mission to abandon Russian fossil fuels. This series looks at speeding up zero-carbon alternatives by lowering political and financial barriers. Sign up here to get the next story sent to your inbox. Trying to attach a million-dollar, 60-ton wind turbine blade to its base is challenging in any circumstance \u2014 getting the angle wrong by even a fraction of a degree could affect the machine\u2019s ability to generate power. Now imagine trying to do it in the middle of the North Sea, one of the world\u2019s windiest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}