Offshore
As the land becomes more crowded and degraded, we will increasingly turn to the sea – less as a living space and more as a zone of production. Today, we have offshore platforms primarily for deep sea oil and gas extraction and wind farms. In the near future, we will most likely move to multi-purpose offshore platforms that combine wind, solar and wave energy generation, aquaculture farming, hydrogen production, ship servicing and even maritime tourism. Sustainable designs will be key – such as those modelled by the EU funded MERMAID project – to avoid simply transferring existing terrestrial impacts to the oceans.
— Wayne Visser
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