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Floating wind turbines can power themselves, and therefore, as long as there is at least a little wind, and they have some small propellers on the bottom, get anywhere in the world.

That seems to make installation and maintenance super cheap - you can build them anywhere in the world, command them to sail themselves to the right place, and just have a ship come by and hook them up to the power grid in perhaps an hour per turbine.



Unless something goes wrong, and they crash into a ferry.

When edge cases become catastrophic, engineering gets hard.




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