By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – The British government said on Tuesday it will commit nearly 32 million pounds ($42 million) to fund the development of floating offshore wind projects to help lessen its dependence on gas, the price of which has increased sharply. The 31.6 million pounds of funding will be matched by a further 30 million pounds from industry to accelerate renewable energy deployment, the government added. Floating wind farms, which can be deployed in deeper waters than conventional turbines, are an emerging technology with far higher costs than projects fixed to the seabed,…