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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They would wipe out the entire bird population that migrate thru there.
If we’d get rid of all the food stamps, you might see the entitlement army scavenging the shredded poultry downstream....
What is the value of a scrap windmill? Are there salvage rights?
>> “Sometimes you see some study and just know is it nothing but BS” <<
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But some leftie useless eater got paid handsomely for preparing it.
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What is the replacement cost of 78,000 large wind turbines?
CC
78,000 turbines would have been destroyed and the wreckage would have destroyed additional buildings such as universities as the parts from the turbines slammed into them.
Yet another Greenie university idiot who has never been through a hurricane.
Science is really going down the terlet.
On coasts prone to hurricanes another solution would be stronger building codes on future construction. Houses and commercial buildings can be made hurricane resistant with concrete-form construction that produces solid concrete walls with voids for wiring and plumbing. Of course this is more expensive than traditional construction but so is building a new house every 15 years.
Florida building codes have been upgraded since hurricane Andrew in in 1982 and again after Frances, Jeanne, Wilma, Charley and Katrina in 2004-05. Steel reinforced concrete wall construction, wind rated doors, windows and roofing codes have all been stiffened in coastal areas. Allstate Insurance along with other property insurance companies abandoned Florida after 2005 leaving property owners scrambling for coverage at drastically increased premiums. Flood insurance rates have also gone up. The cost of living in my little piece of paradise on the Space Coast has gone up a bunch but it’s worth it.
They take energy from the wind. When there are so many they take a lot of energy from the wind maybe creating a condition that changes the jet stream. I’m not a physicist but I’d bet that’s possible.
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