Offshore looks like the next big expansion area for the wind industry. Conventional ideas extended to offshore tasks will mount turbines on towers anchored to the ocean floor in not much more than 30-m depths. Floating turbines, however, would allow placing them farther from shore but will probably be expensive. Inventor Doug Selsam suggests an…
Clever ideas float more than a turbine
Offshore looks like the next big expansion area for the wind industry. Conventional ideas extended to offshore tasks will mount turbines on towers anchored to the ocean floor in not much more than 30-m depths. Floating turbines, however, would allow placing them farther from shore but will probably be expensive. Inventor Doug Selsam suggests an…