{"id":487,"date":"2012-09-18T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/all-us-east-coast-electricity-could-come-from-offshore-wind-3-seasons-out-of-4.html"},"modified":"2012-09-18T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:13:40","slug":"all-us-east-coast-electricity-could-come-from-offshore-wind-3-seasons-out-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/all-us-east-coast-electricity-could-come-from-offshore-wind-3-seasons-out-of-4.html","title":{"rendered":"All U.S. east coast electricity could come from offshore wind 3 seasons out of 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nWhy build nukes when wind can provide 3\/4 of our power?
\nWhile Southern Company claims to be
\n
\n“a company that is engaged in offering solutions, not just rhetoric”<\/a>,
\nyet
\n
\ndoes nothing about wind off the Georgia coast,<\/a>
\n
\n<\/a>
\nresearchers in far California have demonstrated we can get
\n3\/4 of all needed east coast electricity from offshore wind.\n<\/p>\n

\nBjorn Carey wrote for Stanford Report 14 September 2012,
\n
\nOffshore wind energy could power entire U.S. East Coast, Stanford scientists say<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA new analysis by Stanford researchers reveals that there is enough
\noffshore wind along the U.S. East Coast to meet the electricity
\ndemands of at least one-third of the country.\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nThe scientists paid special attention to the Maine-to-Virginia
\ncorridor; the historical lack of strong hurricanes in the region
\nmakes it a favorable site for offshore wind turbines. They found
\nthat turbines placed there could satisfy the peak-time power needs
\nof these states for three seasons of the year (summer is the
\nexception).\n<\/p>\n

\n“We knew there was a lot of wind out there, but this is the first
\nactual quantification of the total resource and the time of day that
\nthe resource peaks,” said Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and
\nenvironmental engineering at Stanford who directed the research.
\n“This provides practical information to wind farm developers about
\nthe best areas to place turbines.”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nMark Z. Jacobson already worked out a framework for
\n
\npowering the entire world from wind, water, and sun alone.<\/a>
\nThe late
\nJohn Blackburn, Ph.D., showed us how
\n
\nto power North Carolina with sun, wind, and hydro,<\/a>
\nplus less natural gas than NC uses now.
\nNow Jacobson is working out the details of implementation.\n<\/p>\n

\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nPS: Owed to Seth Gunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why build nukes when wind can provide 3\/4 of our power? While Southern Company claims to be “a company that is engaged in offering solutions, not just rhetoric”, yet does nothing about wind off the Georgia coast, researchers in far California have demonstrated we can get 3\/4 of all needed east coast electricity from offshore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,216,142,14,264,265,16,8,18,2,104,21,22,32,23,289,24,89,36],"tags":[8736,8753,8746,300,8704,1608,8754,8755,8706,8701,8708,8699,1706,562,8737,8711,8712,8715,8713,1705,8758,1135,8714,108,8735,8716],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-coal","category-cwip","category-economy","category-energy-conservation","category-energy-efficiency","category-environment","category-georgia","category-georgia-power","category-government","category-nuclear","category-planning","category-politics","category-pollution","category-renewable-energy","category-science","category-solar","category-weather","category-wind","tag-activism","tag-coal","tag-cwip","tag-development","tag-economy","tag-electric-territorial-act","tag-energy-conservation","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-environment","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-government","tag-mark-z-jacobson","tag-natural-gas","tag-nuclear","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-pollution","tag-renewable-energy","tag-research","tag-science","tag-smart-grid","tag-solar","tag-southern-company","tag-weather","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}