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RESEARCHJuly 14, 2008Satellite shows where the wind blows Now
that engineers are developing floating wind farms to generate electricity
on the open oceans, it's important to know where over the vasty deep
the strongest, most consistent winds blow. NASA scientists have answered
the question with a global wind power map compiled from eight years
of satellite data.The map shows that certain types of land masses channel wind, and the strongest channelers are capes protruding into the ocean. Three places with abundant, consistent wind power are the oceans near Cape Mendocino, Tasmania and Tierra del Fuego. Research paper: Wind Power Distribution over the Ocean Geophysical Research Letters, July 8, 2008 Researchers' homepages: W. Timothy Liu Wenqing Tang Xiaosu Xie Related stories and briefs: none Back to ERN July 14, 2008 |
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