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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #77 Floating Turbines: Offshore Wind’s Game Changer
Description: Until a few years ago the offshore wind industry was constrained by the seabed characteristics of countries seeking to harness the generating capacity of the wind. Only those with shallow waters of around 40m or less could implement fixed offshore arrays. But in just a few years the game has changed. Floating offshore turbines are entering commercial production and opening up vast swathes of ocean, where the seabed is deep and the wind resources are powerful to generate low carbon energy.
No-one seems more convinced than UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson who made history in October 2020 by...