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EPISODE · Jul 9, 2024 · 40 MIN

Cutting offshore wind costs IKEA style - Sam Kanner, CEO Aikido

from The Switch - to a green economy

Cutting offshore wind costs IKEA style!  That’s what Sam Kanner and his company Aikido have set out to do.  80% of the world's potential wind energy potential exists over deeper water, where the wind platforms need to be floating.   There’s just one problem: building, assembling and installing large, commercial-scale floating wind farms is costly and takes a long time, up to 10 years.  Aikido’s solution: a foldable, submersible technology that aims to build and assemble offshore wind farms twice as fast, just using a third of the space needed today. Almost like a flat pack from IKEA ...  Watch this episode on YouTube or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to hear more.  Did you know floating wind energy held such great potential?  #WindPower #InnovativeTechnology #GreenInnovation #CleanEnergy 

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