Slowly but surely most advanced nations in the world are moving toward renewable energy. New ideas are always emerging, but ocean wind turbines are the newest and most promising one so far.

"We will never get what we want from land," said David Still—managing director of London-based Clipper Windpower Europe—in reference to both the terrestrial wind power and a new solution to locate near the ocean where winds reach their highest speed levels. He predicts that by 2020, half of the United Kingdom's wind power will be cranked out by offshore turbines. We moved our oil digs from land and to platforms out in the middle of the ocean to maximize our intakes, so why not take our wind turbines and place them offshore to increase renewable energy?

Currently, about 85 percent of wind generation capacity worldwide is split between Europe (70 percent) and the United States (15 percent). That's why people such as Peter Mandelstand—who plans on developing an ocean wind project off the coast of Delaware—and Jim Gordon—who plans on installing a 468-megawatt wind farm off of Cape Cod—are determined to make their projects a reality and increase the production of ocean wind power in the United States.

Marine wind generation started in the early 1990's and remains in its infancy. We have a long ways to go, but surely we are moving forward.