On pure levelized cost of electricity, no: wind cannot match solar PV's steeper learning curves and zero-moving-parts simplicity under aggressive scaling. However, for land-constrained industrial economies (such as South Korea, Japan, or the UK) lacking the acreage for utility-scale solar, massive 1200-meter deep-ocean floating vertical-axis concrete spar turbines (~100 MW each) producing synthetic fuels directly at sea represent the most viable non-land alternative, bypassing transmission bottlenecks by offloading chemical fuels by ship. caseyhandmer.wordpress.com