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> Seems it'd be rather easy to float a farm of them

Geopolitical threats aside, I imagine floating a farm would be the least of challenges[1].

[1] https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/80/1/1520-04...

Geo location aside, putting things off shore is really a way to drive up cost such as maintenance like mad and it makes even less sense when you are working with large surfaces rather than something designed around having height and wind tolerance.

shouldn't there be more clouds over ocean, as that is where the clouds tend to form?

China would find an excuse to attack anything put in "their" sea.