is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate.
The U.S. is getting its first major offshore wind farm. And it’s a big deal.
The Biden administration recently for the company, , to () off the coast of Massachusetts, creating enough energy to power some 400,000 homes. The project is a significant leap in the nation’s ability to harness powerful winds that blow over the ocean, producing bounties of clean, renewable energy.
“This is an imperative for us,” emphasized Ben Schafer, a civil engineer and director of the Sustainable Energy Institute at Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. has to start somewhere to establish reliable offshore wind in coastal areas where most Americans live and consume energy.
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