Floating Wind Farms

I saw an interesting idea the other day, and kind of kept it over for while we were away. Sad, but true.

Anyway, this piece details the invention of a floating wind-turbine farm, which seems to be a pretty good idea. It means it doesn’t have to create/build the expensive moorings for the wind-turbines, and that they could be sited further away from the coast.

In addition, they could be moved should they need to (for example, in the US during hurricane season) and generally just seem to be a pretty good idea. The only thing I wonder about is how well they’d need to be anchored in order to not topple over at some point…