By 2036, larger and cheaper installations in British waters will probably have matched the output of the London Array but, with luck, those 525 blades will spin for many years more, harnessing the turbulent British weather for the common good.
Now we must once more harness the expertise of our engineers and scientists - and the ambition of our entrepreneurs - to embrace a green revolution that will significantly change the way we all live and work.
If we could do this, what could happen if even more were harnessed together?
Our awesome capacity for visual analysis is more often harnessed for entertainment than it is for the classroom.
The IMF's deputy managing director, Nemat Shafik, last week highlighted how education and training needed to be much more effectively harnessed in the pursuit of economic growth.
Swimming emerges from the study as a potentially valuable health and wellbeing resource that can be more fully harnessed to inform wider public health policy.
Other studies have suggested that experience of personal bereavement or illness could usefully be more explicitly harnessed and put to use in clinical practice [ 12, 32].
The point is not to stamp out these forces or to overcome them, but rather to articulate their role in team collaboration, so that they can be more strategically harnessed by team members and, as a consequence, smooth team functioning can be promoted.
However it is more about harnessing the right behaviours and getting the psychology right than about the tech itself.
More, by harnessing modern communications technology, a yak herder in Mongolia, say, could get in touch with a llama farmer in the Andes.
