{"id":126484,"date":"2021-08-19T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/these-electric-submarines-map-the-seafloor-to-make-way-for-wind-power"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:23:05","slug":"these-electric-submarines-map-the-seafloor-to-make-way-for-wind-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/these-electric-submarines-map-the-seafloor-to-make-way-for-wind-power","title":{"rendered":"These electric submarines map the seafloor to make way for wind power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-electric-submarines-map-the-seafloor-to-make-way-for-wind-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March, the departments of Energy, Interior and Commerce said they were aiming for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/30\/the-us-announces-plans-to-ramp-up-offshore-wind-capacity-in-a-big-way.html\">U.S. offshore wind capacity to hit 30 gigawatts<\/a> (GW) by 2,030 a hugely optimistic goal that would require thousands of new wind turbines to be installed off the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts.<\/p>\n<p>With federal support locked in, now it\u2019s up to developers and operators to figure out where it\u2019s safe to install offshore wind farms and pursue permits.<\/p>\n<p>Bedrock, a Richmond, California, start-up, wants to help them map the seafloor using electric autonomous underwater vehicles (e-AUV) that can launch right from the shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, the departments of Energy, Interior and Commerce said they were aiming for U.S. offshore wind capacity to hit 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2,030 a hugely optimistic goal that would require thousands of new wind turbines to be installed off the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. With federal support locked in, now it\u2019s up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}