America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm by m-i-l on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:04PM (#12347069)

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-l...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Club_...

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Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm by sandworm101 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:29PM (#12347292)

Which 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

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