Offshore wind make sense economically as you can put up very large turbines (5MW or more) which are the equivalent of 5 typical land-based ones, and they can be located near population centers where the demand is.
And therein lies the rub, “not in my backyard” becomes “not where the will spoil my ocean view”. If there aren’t 5 lawsuits filed against the wind farm by the very same libs who want renewable energy in a years time, I’ll be amazed.
Offshore Breeze Turbines also put themselves out when they catch fire , plop