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144,000 Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power the Entire East Coast of the United States Read more: 144,000 Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power the Entire East Coast of the United States

144,000 Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power the Entire East Coast of the United States Read more: 144,000 Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power the Entire East Coast of the United States

2012-09-19
Source: Inhabitat


Recent reports have shown that it’s possible to power the entire world with wind power, but scientists at Standford University conducted a more focused study that delivered the first-ever quantitative analysis of offshore wind energy on the US East Coast. The study states that there is enough wind energy available to fulfill one-third of the US energy demand with thousands of offshore wind turbines.

 

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Focusing on the Maine-to-Virginia corridor—due the region’s general lack of hurricanes—the Stanford team calculated that wind turbines placed there would satisfy the peak-time power needs of the nearby states for three seasons of the year (with summer being the exception).

“We knew there was a lot of wind out there, but this is the first actual quantification of the total resource and the time of day that the resource peaks,” said Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford who led the team. “This provides practical information to wind farm developers about the best areas to place turbines.”.

In their research, the team generated a series of computer models and inserted about 140,000 wind turbines into the scenarios. The model theorized that



Read more: 144,000 Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power the Entire East Coast of the United States | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building 





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