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by mcmoor 47 days ago
There are a lot of ocean, but limited shores. I guess that's the only economical place to build it, but of course it blocks scenery. If people truly built it in open ocean, less people will complain.
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"It is very hard to build robust and secure wind farms in water deeper than around 200 feet (~60 m)"

https://profession.americangeosciences.org/society/intersect...

That’s ~true for now but keep the date someone said it in mind. It’s really easy to keep thinking technical limitations still true when they are wildly out of date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_wind_turbine

The biggest is Hywind Tampen, Max. water depth 300 m

NOK 8 billion ($730 million; $8.3m/MW)