There is a lot of acoustic mitigation in place nowadays when using monopiles. And the easy locations are taken, so other foundation types (jacket platforms, floating wind turbines) are also in play. Grand generalizations like “we should build them on land only” sort of fall apart in the real world.
There are also wave power devices like the Pelamis wave energy converter, which have a high potential and make a lot of sense in Eoropean countries with ocean coasts, like France, Portugal, the UK, Ireland and Scotland, and Norway. In the case of the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter, E.ON, a fossil energy company, has killed the project, but apparently the Chinese are continuing to work on it.
There is a lot of acoustic mitigation in place nowadays when using monopiles. And the easy locations are taken, so other foundation types (jacket platforms, floating wind turbines) are also in play. Grand generalizations like “we should build them on land only” sort of fall apart in the real world.
There are also wave power devices like the Pelamis wave energy converter, which have a high potential and make a lot of sense in Eoropean countries with ocean coasts, like France, Portugal, the UK, Ireland and Scotland, and Norway. In the case of the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter, E.ON, a fossil energy company, has killed the project, but apparently the Chinese are continuing to work on it.