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>Europe never had that luxury. Offshore wind is our only option.

This kind of depends on where in Europe. The North of Sweden (i.e the top 2/3 of the country) is very sparsely populated, and well-suited for installing on-shore wind power.

NIMBYs keep on NIMBYing though, and many projects get killed because of their protesting.

Yeah I've seen the central US wind farms and they're absolutely ginormous. We should do offshore too but we aren't lacking in wind turbines, we're just putting them in different places.

You want them in as much diverse locations as possible so that you're somewhat protected against outages due to weather or natural disasters.

simcity baby!

Nah, just common sense. Never played sim city but it is nice to hear they put that kind of realism in the game.

Loads of inland wind farms in the UK as well as offshore.

Restricting yourself to offshore wind is a choice, not a necessity.