Source: Charles Duncan, SPECTRUM LOCAL NEWS, 10/29/21

This is the third story in a three-part series on offshore wind in North Carolina.

The sheer scale of offshore wind is impressive: blades as long as football fields turn about over the ocean, mounted to towers up to 800 feet tall that are anchored on the ocean floor. Then multiply that by dozens or hundreds of turbines spread out over the ocean. The size of the turbines is matched by the amount of time, money, science and engineering that goes into offshore wind farms. These projects take decades.

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