Damien1972 sends in a report on a study published in the records of the national Academy of Science, which finds that wind power could provide for the entire world's current and future energy needs. "To judgment the earth's full for wind power, the researchers first sectioned the globe into areas of approximately 3,300 square kilometers (2,050 square miles) and surveyed local wind speeds every six hours. They imagined 2.5 megawatt turbines crisscrossing the terrestrial globe, excluding 'areas classified as forested, areas occupied by endless snow or ice, areas covered by water, and areas identified as either grown-up or urban,' by the book to the paper. They also act the achievability of 3.6 megawatt offshore wind turbines, but reserved


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document.write("") them to 50 nautical miles off the coast and to oceans depths less than 200 meters. Using criteria the researchers found that wind energy could not only supply all of the world's energy requirements, but it could provide over forty times the world's current electrical use and over five times the global use of total energy needs."

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