TroubleNew selling point for wind farms : reduce erosion (once we get better models telling us where to put them) by reducing wind and storm surge. Read: keep your oceanfront property safe on someone else's dime, you east coast old money families.
"North Sea wind farms may be reshaping sediment flows by 1.5 million tons a year" https://phys.org/news/2026-03-north-sea-farms-reshaping-sediment.html #WindFarms
North Sea wind farms may be reshaping sediment flows by 1.5 million tons a year
Offshore wind farms are an important pillar of the European Union's strategy for renewable energy—by 2050, the EU aims to increase capacity in the North Sea more than tenfold. A new study by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon shows that the expansion of wind farms can alter the natural transport and deposition of sediments on a large scale and over the long term. The German Bight is particularly affected. The researchers have published their findings in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.
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