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The world's winds are speeding up


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Nov 19, 2019 Winds speed are getting faster worldwide, and that's good news for renewable energy production — at least for now.

A study published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that winds across much of North America, Europe and Asia have been growing faster since about 2010.

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I was taught years ago that the winds do get stronger when the ocean currents weaken.  I couldn't get the link to show the story.  Did it mention anything about the ocean currents?

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Sorry the link is broken try to google the title if it help it worked for me and what *snip* mean?

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1 minute ago, debra odem said:

Sorry the link is broken try to google the title if it help it worked for me and what *snip* mean?

*snip* means someone took your link out.

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5 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said:

*snip* means someone took your link out.

And why someone would do that?

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1 minute ago, debra odem said:

And why someone would do that?

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Apparently the link was broken.

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4 minutes ago, debra odem said:

And why someone would do that?

Because the link doesn't work.

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Thanks and sorry!

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The whole site was broken, winds are increasing, lol, of course they are, unicorn numbers are also increasing, and cyclone intensity is Decreasing.

Go to a junk site and you get junk data!

:rolleyes:

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12 hours ago, tmcom said:

The whole site was broken, winds are increasing, lol, of course they are, unicorn numbers are also increasing, and cyclone intensity is Decreasing.

Go to a junk site and you get junk data!

:rolleyes:

Only the OP's link was broken, the study came from here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0622-6

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56 minutes ago, Still Waters said:

Only the OP's link was broken, the study came from here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0622-6

Thanks for the  link.

This was something that I was taught in college, the changes in winds are proportional to the changes in ocean currents.

We illustrate that decadal-scale variations of near-surface wind are probably determined by internal decadal ocean–atmosphere oscillations, rather than by vegetation growth and/or urbanization as hypothesized previously.

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"Since about 2010 ..... ?"

Previous, published command line sequence, written in Latin, uploaded on September 20, 2010 - 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/51127052@N04/5007711261/in/datetaken/

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amplio, arS, avi, atiim (amplus 
o/ large extent), enlarge,
multiplico Latin (lat) - (mathematics) I multiply.. I increase, augment.

 

Ventus =  Wind, Nunc = Now

 

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On 11/20/2019 at 8:02 PM, tmcom said:

The whole site was broken, winds are increasing, lol, of course they are, unicorn numbers are also increasing, and cyclone intensity is Decreasing.

Go to a junk site and you get junk data!

:rolleyes:

You mean, like a science site?

Doug

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I can recall reading a few years ago the average wind speed across the globe had been decreasing since the 1970's. I agree, my scientific experiments reveal that fewer items of clothing get tangled in the clothesline these days.

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The reversal was only nine years ago.  That's not long enough, or enough data, to trust that it is going to continue.  If it continues, it may cut into wind-generated power.  That means more wind turbines to produce the same amount of electricity.

I haven't had time to read up on perovskites, yet, but they may be able to make serious inroads into wind beginning next year.  So changing wind speed may be irrelevant.

 

What are the possibilities for biogas and biochar in fueling things like home heating?  That could also have an effect on power generation.

Doug

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Did you know that there is always a place on earth where wind doesnt blow? Thas so cool. Anyway my earliest memory in my life was looking and hearing wind how plays with leafs on one big tree during one hot sunshine day.

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The market in renewable energy is going to scarce.

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It has a Apocalyptic taste.

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On 11/23/2019 at 8:46 AM, Raptor Witness said:

"Since about 2010 ..... ?"

Previous, published command line sequence, written in Latin, uploaded on September 20, 2010 - 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/51127052@N04/5007711261/in/datetaken/

5007711261_139a9ee7fa_c.jpg


amplio, arS, avi, atiim (amplus 
o/ large extent), enlarge,
multiplico Latin (lat) - (mathematics) I multiply.. I increase, augment.

 

Ventus =  Wind, Nunc = Now

 

Well that proves it!

:innocent:

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On 11/20/2019 at 8:02 PM, tmcom said:

The whole site was broken, winds are increasing, lol, of course they are, unicorn numbers are also increasing, and cyclone intensity is Decreasing.

Go to a junk site and you get junk data!

:rolleyes:

Accelerated wind speeds are consistent with there being more storms, especially hurricanes.  Both are the product of greater temperature gradients caused by one part of the world warming more than another.

We all make a big deal of major storms, but there has also been an increase in small storms in the southern Great Plains.  These small storms collectively discharge more energy than the less-frequent big ones.

Doug

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