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How do floating wind turbines work? With 5 companies winning the first US leases to build wind farms off California’s coast, let’s take a look

By The Conversation Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it also has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building traditional wind turbines directly on the seafloor costly if not impossible. Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep […]

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