<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">LFEE Seminar on Energy and Environment </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>F<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">loating Wind Turbines</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Paul Sclavounos</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B><BR></B></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Wednesday</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">October 11, 2006</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">12:00 - 1:30 pm</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">E40-496</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The presentation will focus on the development of an innovative floater concept and its anchoring system supporting a 5MW offshore wind turbine for deployment in 1-2 GW offshore wind farms and in water depths ranging from 30 to several hundred meters. The floating wind turbine system has been designed to float stably prior to its anchoring to the seafloor by using concrete and water in internal ballast tanks. This allows the full assembly of the system onshore – at a shipyard or a coastal manufacturing facility – prior to its towing by a tugboat to the offshore site for its connection to preinstalled tethers or taught mooring lines thus circumventing expensive offshore assembly.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Georgia; min-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The very favourable dynamic response properties of the moored system in severe wind and wave conditions are presented, including recent research investigating the further reduction of the system dynamic and flexural responses by installing specially designed dampers inside the floater and in the nacelle. The economic merits of this floating offshore wind power unit derived from its flexible manufacturing, deployment and relocation attributes will also be addressed.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bring your lunch - light refreshment will be provided.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">___________________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you would like to be added or removed from this mailing list, please contact Karen Gibson, <A href="mailto:kgibson@mit.edu">kgibson@mit.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Karen<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>L. 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