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11 See Lawrence, supra note 5.
12 See Carol J. Williams, Japan Gives Wind Energy a Spin , Los Angeles Times
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nuclear energy and growing investments in renewables).
13 See Hiroko Tabuchi, To Expand Offshore Power, Japan Builds Floating
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14 See id.
15 Detailed descriptions of these sorts of conflicts are set forth in Chapter 2 .
16 For a description of some of these challenges, see generally Edward Platt, The
London Array: The World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm , The Telegraph (July
28, 2012), available at www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9427156/
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17 See Musial & Ram, supra note 4 at 4.
18 See Lawrence, supra note 11 (quoting an industry official as stating that the
“price gap between clean energy and dirty energy has narrowed, the technology
has advanced so much and the politics have changed” in favor of offshore wind
energy development).
19 See Michelle E. Portman, et al., Offshore Wind Energy Development in the
Exclusive Economic Zone: Legal and Policy Supports and Impediments in
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20 See Kara M. Blake, Marine Spatial Planning for Offshore Wind Energy Projects
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of Washington) (2013), available at https://digital.lib.washington.edu/research-
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21 Brian Clark Howard, Turbines Ready for Takeoff, , nationalgeographic.com
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22 See Jim Hodges, An Answer to Green Energy Could Be in the Air , Nat'l
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technology/features/capturingwind.html (last visited Oct. 25, 2013).
23 Id.
24 For more information about some of these companies, see, e.g ., www.altaerosenergies
.com/&http://www.makanipower.com/home/ (last visited Oct. 25, 2013).
25 See Frederic Lardinois, Google X Acquires Makani Power and Its Airborne
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com/2013/05/22/google-x-acquires-makani-power-and-its-airborne-wind-tur-
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26 See Dave Levitan, High-Altitude Wind Energy: Huge Potential—And Hurdles ,
Yale Environment 360 (Sept. 24, 2012), available at http://e360.yale.edu/
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visited Oct. 25, 2013).
27 See Brian MacCleery, The Advent of Airborne Wind Power , Wind Systems
(January 2011), available at http://windsystemsmag.com/article/detail/187/
the-advent-of-airborne-wind-power (last visited Oct. 25, 2013).
28 See 14 C.F.R. § 77.23 (2009).
29 See United States v. Causby , 328 U.S. 256, 264 (1946).