Patent ID: 8662793

Claim:
A floating wind farm comprising: a plurality of individual floating rafts, each individual floating raft having a self-weight with ballast blocks thereon that is balanced by the buoyancy of the raft to suspend the raft at a depth below sea level which avoids wave action, each individual floating raft formed from a plurality of pipes, including a set of three pipes of which are connected to each other so that each individual floating raft assumes a triangular shape, each of the triangular-shaped floating rafts further interconnected to one another so as to form a horizontal network of interconnected floating rafts over a body of water supporting a plurality of wind turbines in spaced relation thereon, with vertices of each triangular-shaped floating raft in the network serving as a node, each node having a wind turbine thereat that is mechanically supported at its node and extending above the surface of the body of water, thereby providing the plurality of spaced-apart wind turbines extending across the body of water via the horizontal network; the plurality of wind turbines being configured to be driven by wind to thereby generate power, with the pipes being configured to store air compressed by the power generated by the wind turbines therein; a power generator connected to the floating rafts; and a plurality of anchors connected to the floating rafts and disposed in the body of water for confining the location of the floating rafts; wherein the power generator is configured to generate and output electricity from the compressed air stored in the pipes.