At Seasight Solutions Development & Engineering in Varde, mechanical engineer Lasse Jørgensen works on developing and designing lifting components for the wind industry, among other things. It is an industry that accounts for no less than 95 percent of the company's tasks.
And there is little doubt among the 33-year-old engineer when he points out the future challenge for the wind industry.
- The challenge right now is that everything is getting really big, says Lasse Jørgensen and has a concrete example ready that is easy to understand and very tangible:
- Let's say a man needs to move something, then you can't have people lift something that is the equivalent of a 25 to 30 kg sack of grain. Today, the maximum limit in the wind industry is 11 to 15 kg.
It also has an impact on what the engineer is asked to develop and design.
- Because of the limit on what can be lifted, we make a lot of lifting equipment, says Lasse Jørgensen.
Bolts and nuts are not something you can put in your pocket anymore.
- An example would be a foundation bolt for a wind turbine, an M72, which has a diameter of 72 mm. It probably weighs over 20 kg, and one man cannot lift it, says Lasse Jørgensen, who is not afraid to predict one thing about the future of offshore wind:
- It will all be gigantic.
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