That is a great post Cretaceous. thanks a bunch. Looks like Big Gav is all over offshore wind too. Not surprising.

Good to see someone remembers my posts - thanks Cretaceous !

That particular post was looking at floating offshore wind, which is still a pretty immature field.

Jerome has done a few posts on regular offshore wind power, which has huge potential and is being harnessed today in large scale projects (Jerome's area of expertise).

http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/10/30/231713/57
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/4670
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5003

Here's one on wind power in Lake Ontario too:

http://local.theoildrum.com/node/2513