Offshore Manufacturing

I had previously mentioned my local manufacturing motto. This can be extend to offshore manufacturing as well. In my previous article, I had proposed wind concentrators to harvest maximum wind power from offshore wind farms. The design required carbon fiber fabric wind concentrators and strong poles. All these parts can be manufactured on the sea using floating factories.

The first step on this type of manufacturing is the installment of underwater power line from the land to the offshore wind farm. Then, the manufacturing ship will plug itself to this power line. The ship should utilize electric motors for propulsion which are powered by diesel electric generators while cruising and powered by the electric from the land on the offshore building site. The power drawn by the ship will be used to stabilize the ships position and power the production line built inside the ship. The windfarm will be built in sections. The first section will be manufactured using the electric supplied by the land, but the successive sections will be manufactured using the wind turbines installed on site.

The overall objective of this idea is to lower the cost of manufacturing high power demanding infrastructure using the power generated by the very same infrastructure. Manufacture and build where the demand is.

I propose carbon nanotube fibers to be used on the wind farm. Their raw material is very cheap but they demand high power during manufacturing. Which is not a problem for a wind farm. Here is an example of a Continuously processing waste lignin into high-value carbon nanotube fibers.

The very tall poles can be manufactured offshore using robot boats with gimbled holders. They would hold the pole straight without requiring a very long ship. As a result, much longer poles can be manufactured in one piece on site. Such things are not possible on land. The sea offers great opportunities if you think over.