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Make Wind Farms, Avoid Hurricanes

posted by Cactus on Friday February 28 2014, @03:31AM   
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)."

• This will work great until...(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @06:42AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @06:42AM (#8329)

  This will work great until the threat of AGC (Anthropogenic Global Calming) is realized. Don't let anybody tell you AGC isn't real. If they do they're probably just lobbyists for Big Wind.

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