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The 30 MW Pilot Power Plant

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The Kuroshio provides a source of high-quality renewable energy with many competitive advantages, including (1) environment-friendly advantage: zero carbon emissions, no-pollution, zero waste; (2) fuel-free advantage: requiring no fuel; (3) global advantage: global encouragement to explore renewable energy sources; (4) advantages over other forms of renewable energy: continuous power supply with a capacity factor of 0.7, as opposed to 0.4 for offshore wind power or 0.2 for solar power; (5) construction technology advantages: only mature and traditional construction techniques are involved, no need for intensive R&D, no fatal technologic bottleneck; and (6) cost advantage: once the technology is successfully developed, construction and operating costs will be competitive with offshore wind power.

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Chen, F. (2013). The 30 MW Pilot Power Plant. In: The Kuroshio Power Plant. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00822-6_6

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