In many coastal areas of the world, the best winds for power generation are over water too deep to place a bottom mounted wind turbine. To address this potential, the US and the UK are jointly developing wind turbines on floating platforms. They will be anchored with cables and can be placed in 60 to 100 meters of water...water too deep for bottom mounted turbines.
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