Farms: Stanford simulations show offshore wind farms could tame hurricanes

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3. But how can you say such stupid things, how you have the courage to show you saying stupid things as huge only in order to justify your old fans
4. Not gonna do nothing
5. Excellent approach!I have never thought of this benefit that offshore or nearshore wind farms can create for the environment in hurricane areas!
6. Prof. Jacobson's proposal is interesting but he may need to think the number of proposed wind turbines is realistic.
7. Did he say "tens of thousands"? Is that kind of production even realistic?
8. I wonder if this could warming the land up though if this comes to pass and works effectively.
   Hurricanes have a cooling effect when the climate gets very hot and can also help clean the air. I wonder if weakening them as significantly as Mark says would maybe cause a warmer climate and warmer land temperatures?
9. Even if wind farms do dampen winds that form hurricanes, we must consider if they will dampen all winds such that normal circulation is impeded and coastal ecologies suffer.  We also must be concerned about migratory patterns.  
   
   Beyond this, hurricanes are known to re-balance energy separations in the atmosphere — reducing or removing this potential could cause more intense storms in other places, such as continentally, or far at sea (affecting flights and shipping)
10. link to paper: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v4/n3/full/nclimate2120.html
11. And there is no harmful radioactivity!!! That is the best thing!!!
12. Ridiculous, turbines can't survive hurricanes due to the heavy props. However, VAWT's would stand a much better chance of surviving.
13. Show me a real simulation that's not made with a mac and I will support, since then you gotta stop wasting money with this.
14. Wind Turbines cannot stand up to winds of 40mph, let alone winds in a hurricane. They'd be destroyed without having any effect on the hurricane.
15. I have to question the validity of the modelling used. How many turbines did they use in the model? Did they have them spinning? (if yes then they are idiots and the research is immediately void) Were they still? (as they would be in a storm.) Clearly from the video, the turbine blades are rotating so those #Stanford guys are total cretins.
    
    The amount of turbines required to adversely effect wind-flow would have to be tremendous - the guy quotes 'ten's of thousands' so that's totally unrealistic. They'd have to be wall to wall in the ocean. You'd probably be able to walk from one to the other without getting your feet wet.
    
    Those things are only 5-10 metres across at the base. That is nowhere near enough to cause a hurricane to slow down, let alone a regular air current.
    
    It also doesn't take into account the stresses the turbines would come under being in the path of a major hurricane. I would suspect that at least 10-20% of those turbines would come out with minor damage, such as bent or missing blades, to catastrophic damage where the whole tower is destroyed. You only need to look at the wind farms off the coast of Scotland and Nova Scotia to see how easy it is for these things to be knocked over like skittles.
    
    The last comment the guy says "Wouldn't the turbines be destroyed?" then states that "the hurricane has mostly dissipated by the time it gets to the wind farm". Sooo, that means the wind farms haven't done anything at all! So they just contradicted their own experiment. lol facepalm.
    
    http://youtu.be/M7uRtxl8j2U?t=1m31s
16. Could also be potentially damaging to the environment if true. Storms play an important role in the eco system.
    
    With that said, wind turbines in huge risk disaster areas could be useful.
17. How would this reduction of hurricane wind speed effect the normal wind speed on the land? As well as any further effects it could have on the land. Those are my concerns.
18. And what of the impact on (a) Natural weather patterns? (b) Avian life?
    It's a selective reporting bias that environmentalists have. Whenever there is progress in non-"alternative" energy, they question nth order effects. Whenever there is any "benefit" from alternative energy, they immediately trumpet it and squash questions on 2nd order impacts.
    Tragic non-scientific approach of ideological crusaders for non-conventional power laid bare
19. This video is a trick of the mind. The ultimate goal here is to make people believe that turbines slow down the wind, thus making them a bad alternative to oil when used on land in wind farms. In other words, do not use clean energy. Keep using oil. Its all bullshit. His computer simulation is a fake. Turbines will NOT slow down a hurricane. Why are they doing this? Because Stanford gets millions of dollars in funds from ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, and ConocoPhillips in exchange for a dirty teaching tactic known as, "hijacking the universities research agenda and compromising academic independence." Google search, Big Oil Goes To College. The results will amaze you. Hopefully the students are smart enough to not be fooled.
20. *tripple facepalm*