How wind turbines can become homes for marine life
February 3, 2024 1:13 PM Subscribe
"Like a shipwreck on a seabed": How wind turbines can become homes for marine life. Experts say wind turbines can create new marine habitats for marine life.
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Floating wind offers new potential seabed ecologies. While the turbine tower won't reach the seabed, a floating turbine will need to have about a third of a kilotonne of moorings per turbine. It's early days but there is certainly potential to design the shape of moorings to favour maximising life growing on them. I have even heard it suggested you could coat them to maximise biomass attractiveness and actually plan on growing biomass as part of the anchoring to defray costs. I'm a bit dubious about that.
This is a good guide to floating wind turbines.
posted by biffa at 10:01 AM on February 4