The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come

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I've seen these things in the Oresund between Sweden and Denmark, they are an eyesore and certainly produce (unreliably) a small fraction of the power the decommissioned nukes in the area used to produce. The same will be true in the US.

While I agree, to be fair, most new installs are far enough off the coast you can’t (materially) see them with the naked eye.

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