> of open sea space I'm not disagreeing with your math, but it doesn't need to be offshore only. Currently 93% of wind power is on land, and 7% is offshore[1].

> of open sea space I'm not disagreeing with your math, but it doesn't need to be offshore only. Currently 93% of wind power is on land, and 7% is offshore[1]. In the United States, it's much more extreme. Literally 99.99% of turbines are on land and 0.01% are offshore[2]. Offshore is growing faster than onshore, though. --- [1] See "Technology deployment" section here: https://www.iea.org/energy-system/renewables/wind https://www.iea.org/energy-system/renewables/wind [2] See this map: https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/ https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/ . It shows 72,731 wind turbines, 7 of which are offshore. Also see this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in...