Deep Ocean Floating Wind Turbines. How do they do that?

Offshore wind turbines powered almost 40% of all the UK's homes in 2020. The International Energy Agency says there's enough potential accessible energy out there to power all of Europe, the US and Japan several times over. But to get at all of it, developers will have to go out into the very deep waters of the open oceans and find a way to make their turbines float safely and securely in all weather conditions. So how on earth are they going to do that?

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Research Links

BBC Article
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201013-is-wind-powers-future-in-deep-water

Hywind
https://www.equinor.com/en/what-we-do/floating-wind/how-hywind-works.html

Kincardine
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/07/05/worlds-largest-floating-wind-farm-takes-final-shape/

GE Article
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/deep-water-wind-these-huge-floating-wind-turbines-could-help-america-meet-its-renewable

Orsted Report
https://orsted.com/en/about-us/whitepapers/making-green-energy-affordable/1991-to-2001-the-first-offshore-wind-farms

World Forum Offshore Wind report
https://wfo-global.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/WFO_Global-Offshore-Wind-Report-2020.pdf

Wind Europe report
https://windeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/files/about-wind/reports/Floating-offshore-statement.pdf