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Wind Power Set to Become World's Leading Energy Source
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Location:
1350 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 403, Washington, District of Columbia, 20036, United States
Contact person:
Reah Janise Kauffman
Organization:
Earth Policy Institute
Website:
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update24.htm
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Language(s):
English
Media:
Article or paper
Fax:
202.496.9325
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Specialty:
Insurance
Phone:
202.496.9290
Last updated:
April 13, 2004
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Description:
free on website, incudes data
By Lester R. Brown
In 1991, a national wind resource inventory taken by the U.S. Department of Energy startled the world when it reported that the three most wind-rich states--North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas--had enough harnessable wind energy to satisfy national electricity needs. Now a new study by a team of engineers at Stanford reports that the wind energy potential is actually substantially greater than that estimated in 1991.
Advances in wind turbine design since 1991 allow turbines to operate at lower wind speeds, to harness more of the wind's energy, and to harvest it at greater heights--dramatically expanding the harnessable wind resource. Add to this the recent bullish assessments of offshore wind potential, and the enormity of the wind resource becomes apparent. Wind power can meet not only all U.S. electricity needs, but all U.S. energy needs.
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Permalink:
http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Materials/81163-122/c
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