One small twist could revolutionize the offshore wind turbines: making them float. Offshore energy’s major problem is that they can only be built in shallow water, but most of the wind in the world’s coastal regions blow across deep water territory. Can floating wind farms solve this?

Credits:
Reporter: Kai Steinecke
Camera: Henning Goll
Cutter: Frederik Willmann
Editor: Kiyo Dörrer, Michael Trobridge

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an ecofriendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read more:
Offshore Wind Outlook by the International Energy Agency: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/ass...
Potential Environmental Impacts of Floating Offshore:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
LCA of Floating Wind Turbine:
https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default...
Floating Paper by GWEC:
https://gwec.net/wpcontent/uploads/2...
Cost Prediction of Floating:
https://www.dnv.com/news/floatingwin...

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 What are Floating Wind Turbines?
02:15 Stabilization
4:19 Global Potential
5:35 Drawbacks
8.26 Conclusion