Today the federal government was to have its first-ever auction for the right to build offshore wind farms.

今天联邦政府首次拍卖其建造海上风力发电场的权利。

The United States doesn't have any offshore wind farms, but the auction shows the industry still could take off.

美国没有任何的海上风力发电场, 但拍卖展示出这一行业仍然可以开始。

Offshore wind farms contain an even greater number of even larger turbines.

海上风电场包含更多甚至更大的涡轮机。

That's the biggest offshore wind farm in Denmark now.

那是丹麦目前最大的海上风电场。

They have proposed a 300-metre by 300-metre  offshore wind farm.

他们提议建造一个 300 米 x 300 米的海上风电场。

In 1991, we built the first offshore wind farm in the world called Vindeby.

1991年，我们建成了世界上第一个海上风电场Vindeby。

But so are offshore wind farms, if they're able to generate cleaner electricity.

但如果海上风电场能够产生更清洁的电力，它们也是如此。

No causal link has been found between the construction of offshore wind farms and whale deaths.

目前尚未发现海上风电场的建设与鲸鱼死亡之间存在因果关系。

We went looking for a second opinion on whether offshore wind farms pose a significant danger to whales.

我们就海上风电场是否对鲸鱼构成重大危险寻求第二意见。

In February a British auction of sea-bed rights for offshore wind farms brought in up to $12bn because energy firms rushed to get exposure whatever the cost.

今年2月，英国的一场海上风电场的海床权拍卖会带来了高达120亿美元的收益，因为能源公司不惜一切代价地急于获得曝光。

Ben Cutler, the engineer in charge of the project, says submarine data-centres could be co-located with offshore wind farms as " anchor" customers.

负责该项目的工程师 Ben Cutler 表示， 海底数据中心可以作为“锚定” 客户与海上风电场位于同一地点。

The floating crane of an offshore wind farm project sank after its mooring chain broke while it was taking shelter from typhoon Chaba in waters near the city of Yangjiang.

在阳江市附近海域躲避台风“暹芭”时，海上风电场项目的浮吊锚链断裂，随后沉没。

Low average wind speeds and Singapore's location  along one of the world's busiest and narrowest shipping lanes rules out offshore wind farms -  and geothermal energy sources are non-existent.

低平均风速和新加坡位于世界上最繁忙和最狭窄的航道之一的位置排除了海上风电场 - 并且不存在地热能源。

For comparison, just a couple decades ago  the UK was lauded for building an offshore wind farm capable of producing less than three  percent of what Denmark's latest turbine can.

相比之下, 就在几十年前, 英国因建造海上风电场而受到称赞, 该风电场的发电量不到丹麦最新涡轮机的3%。

(Explosion sounds) Then,there's the sound of the actual drilling for oil and gas, the construction of things like offshore wind farms,sonar and of course, the nearly constant drone from more than 50,000 ships in the global merchant fleet.

（爆炸声）然后是石油和天然气实际钻探的声音，海上风电场、声纳等建设的声音，当然还有全球商船队 50, 000 多艘船只几乎不间断的无人机。