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There are floating wind farms. The world's largest (according to [0]) is due to be built off the north east coast of Scotland next year. Incidentally, this is
by m-i-l 10y ago
There are floating wind farms. The world's largest (according to [0]) is due to be built off the north east coast of Scotland next year.
Incidentally, this is not far from the site of another offshore wind farm which a certain Donald Trump waged a lengthy legal battle to try to prevent, because he thought it would spoil the view from his golf course[1].
Bear in mind that you can already see large numbers of offshore oil rigs off the coast of parts of north east Scotland.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/16/worlds-largest-floating-windfarm-to-be-built-off-scottish-coast https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/16/worlds-l...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Club_Scotland_Ltd_v_The_Scottish_Ministers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Club_...
- sandworm101 10y agoWhich brings up the great physics question: Does a floating turbine need to be anchored, or can it harvest enough energy to keep itself stationary? Does the turbine create enough energy that it can overcome its own drag? Enough to have some spare energy for moving around? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzGCYaJbf0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzGCYaJbf0A