The World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Nearly Complete
世界上最大海上風電廠即將建成
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英語原文Located 120 kilometers off England's Yorkshire coast, Hornsea One will produce enough energy to supply 1 million UK homes with clean electricity when it is completed in 2020.
The project spans an area that's bigger than the Maldives or Malta.
It consists of 174 seven-megawatt wind turbines, with towers that are each nearly 100 meters tall.
Just a single rotation of one of the turbines can power the average home for an entire day, according to the energy company that built the farm.
The project will take the UK closer to hitting its target of deriving a third of the country's electricity from offshore wind by 2030.
It’s also expected to help cut greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the International Energy Agency, offshore wind currently provides just 0.3% of global power generation.
But the maximum potential for offshore wind production is more than 120,000 gigawatts, or 11 times global electricity demand in 2040, although that estimate does not factor in difficulties in transmitting and storing the power generated.
漢語對照這一海上風電廠坐落於距離英國約克郡120公裡的海上。2020年完工時，它生產的電將為100萬個英國家庭提供清潔能源。這一工廠面積比馬爾地夫或者馬爾他還大，由174個七百萬瓦特風力渦輪機組成。每個基座塔高度都超過100米，風葉每轉一圈所發的電就夠一戶家庭使用一整天。工廠完工後，英國將實現到2030年。海上風電供應全國用電三分之一的目標，也能使英國減少溫室氣體的排放。根據國際能源組織的報告，目前全球海上風電供電量只佔0.3%但海上風電潛在產量有120萬億瓦特。如果不考慮傳輸和儲存難度的話，是2040年全球電力需求量的11倍之多。
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