Wind energy over the oceans could power the world, geophysicists say.

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By Zoya TeirsteinOct 10, 2017, 4:14 pm153 pts
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that wind farms over ocean waters could generate “civilization scale power” — theoretically. To name one major problem: The technology to capture and transfer the energy blowing over the deep ocean hasn’t been invented. According…

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