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Make Wind Farms, Avoid Hurricanes

posted by Cactus on Friday February 28 2014, @03:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-wind dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"At the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford, spoke in a session on renewable energy.

Jacobson was invited to speak at the conference because he has developed a roadmap to convert the entire U.S. to renewable energy using primarily wind, water, and solar generated energy. His detailed analysis includes looking at costs and benefits on a per-state basis, including the obvious benefits to human health from reduced pollution. One of his slides showed a very unexpected benefit, however: taming of destructive hurricanes with the help of offshore wind farms.

Jakobson's study, co-authored by Cristina L. Archer and Willett Kempton, has been published in Nature Climate Change (full text available here)."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MillionthMonkey on Friday February 28 2014, @06:12AM

    by MillionthMonkey (2861) on Friday February 28 2014, @06:12AM (#8315)

    Why isn't it obvious that if you slow the wind down enough to interfere with hurricanes that you will cause other non intended effects?

    How is something like that "obvious"?

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