Yyyyyyyeaaahhhhhh.
Posted on 02/27/2014 7:02:32 AM PST by shove_it
Edited on 02/27/2014 7:13:41 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Research from Stanford University in California holds out hope for hurricane protection that's better and cheaper than a seawall. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Climate Change, uses computer models to estimate the reduction in hurricane winds and storm surge that results from installing huge wind turbine farms. For example, had there been 78,000 turbines spread across a wide swath of Louisiana coastline when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, the turbines would have reduced the wind speed by between 80 and 98 mph and the storm surge by 79 percent, the study showed. For Hurricane Sandy, which hit New York and New Jersey in 2012, the model projected a wind speed reduction of 78 to 87 mph and up to 34 percent decrease in storm surge.
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78,000 Wind turbines? What a beautiful picture? And they don’t like the sight of drill rigs WAAAAAAY out in the distance on a clear day?
I doubt this would ever pass where Liberals vacation.
Sometimes you see some “study” and just know is it nothing but BS. I wonder if they consider how dangerous these windmill panes will be when they break off at 120mph and begin cartwheeling across the coast. Bet they did not consider that either.
I have lost confidence in these leftist eggheads and their “studies”.
The only way I *might* listen to them is if they agree in advance to ride out any storms in a little box perched atop one of their wind turbines. In other words, put some skin in the game before we turn them loose implementing their wet dream.
Do you think they’d agree to that? Think they trust their “studies” enough to stake their life on them?
lol you mean the turbines that have to be shut down in high winds?
This is even dumber then the guy who wanted to build huge 1000ft tall walls to stop tornadoes.
Yyyyyyyeaaahhhhhh.
>> I wonder if they consider how dangerous these windmill panes will be when they break off at 120mph and begin cartwheeling across the coast. Bet they did not consider that either.
I bet they did a back-of-the-napkin calculation to satisfy themselves that those cartwheeling blades won’t make it as far as either Palo Alto or Newark, DE.
If a few flyover-country rubes get decapitated or crushed, so what? Especially if they’re in the SOUTH.
As in all of these “studies” the word “COULD” is liberally sprinkled throughout the text. Nonetheless, the author gets paid for it.
They’ve been able to shut down hurricanes for decades, but the liabilities are off the scale. If you change the weather in one place, and there is bad weather in another a few days later, you would be blamed. If you stop a hurricane from battering a coast, you also stop it from watering crops inland. If you do anything to expose your wealth, income, or spending, it will be confiscated, skimmed, and redistributed.
This world sucks.
After watching a causeway get folded up like an accordion as a result of Katrina......a few piddly wind turbines would just blow around and cause more damage.
I'll put my money on the hurricane.
Hey. I got an idea. Let's put some windmill farms up around Martha's Vineyard and The Hamptons to mitigate the damage from those troublesome Nor'easters.
Louisiana is also not an ideal state for wind farms as the average 80m hub height wind speeds are moderate at best.
.........wonder if these Certified Academia Liberals will EVER get it in their sawdust craniums that 2/3 of Americans call themselves conservative and because of that ANYTHING a liberal professor says is automatically laughed at and particularly this cockamamie idea clearly dreamed up in the fog of a California pot party.
I want to know it the wind farms in the Midwest have any role in climate change. I keep hearing the jet stream is slowing wonder if why.
This one has crony capitalism written all over it.
I’m afraid there’s no turning back, so lets try and identify the investment opportunities here.
One suggestion though. They'll have to be portable. You don't know until the last second exactly where the hurricane will strike.
Maybe we can get a deal on those shuttle moving vehicles NASA is no longer using.
Paying dividends already.
Well. If you're in the windfarm industry anyway.
Isn’t the jet stream 60,000 ft and above?
Seems like a long way up from the wind farms.
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