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This was Saturday night’s sunset, taken in Ofir (Esposende). What I didn’t realize until I took a closer look at the surfer on my computer monitor is that I also accidentally took a photo of “Windfloat I” — a floating turbine 5km offshore. Installed in 2011, it was designed by a U.S. company called Principle Power and is only the second full-scale floating turbine to be deployed at sea.
See the Guardian article (June 2014) for more about this renewable energy resource:
November 14, 2015
Album: Apúlia + Ofir (November 2015)
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