Quite honestly, before finding this article I didn’t know wind turbines could be installed anywhere that wasn’t onshore. It turns out that if wind farms are installed on the open ocean, even more energy can be generated than from onshore wind farms.
huge energy in open ocean wind farms in the north atlantic https://t.co/1qPfF5FXgn#bcsfh20
— Julia Duze (@JDuze21) October 11, 2017
This is the case due to the heat in the atmosphere that pours out into the North Atlantic ocean, during the winter especially. The drag that would normally affect the turbine on land has less of an effect when over water. However, the one drawback is that this efficiency is a seasonal occurrence, only happening during the winter.
Either way, this is a new frontier for wind turbines and a definite step forward for renewable energy.
