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Offshore wind farms can provide us with clean, renewable energy to power our homes. But they can also provide us with delicious seafood, as researchers in Denmark have shown.
Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall and Aarhus University in Denmark have teamed up to create the world’s first offshore wind farm that doubles as an underwater seafood farm, Euronews reported.
The “wind park,” as its developers are calling it, is located in the Baltic Sea and has a capacity of over 600 megawatts, allowing it to power up to 600,000 homes in Germany and Denmark, per Euronews. It also just had its first harvest of seaweed, with fresh mussels coming soon.
“Seaweed and mussels are low trophic aquaculture crops, which means that they can be produced without the use of fertilisers. They take up nutrients from the sea and produce…
