Scotland is known for picturesque highlands and tartan-wearing highlanders, but now the country boasts the world's first floating wind farm. The large turbines are floating in the North Sea, 15 miles off the coast of the town of Petershead.

The farm consists of five enormous wind turbines that stand about 830 feet tall (256 feet of that bobs beneath the water's surface).

Dubbed the Hywind project, renewable energy advocates hope it can serve as a model for other regions that are capable of implementing the same technology.

The enormous turbines were assembled in Norway by Norwegian oil company Statoil and ferried about a thousand miles south to Scotland. Statoil partnered with U.A.E. company Masdar to create the massive