The construction of offshore wind farm projects requires significant investment costs, typically over a million euros per megawatt of installed capacity.
Many people think that solar technology is a recent development, but it isn’t new. Humans dabbled in the uses of sunlight since the 3rd Century B.C., when the Romans and Greeks used mirrors to light their torches for religious practices. The Greek scientist Archimedes is believed to have used reflective bronze shields to focus sunlight on the wooden ships of Roman invaders.