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Very amusing that the article ends with “It’s pretty slim pickings right now,” Ferguson said. “God is not manufacturing more coastal property.” Par

Very amusing that the article ends with “It’s pretty slim pickings right now,” Ferguson said. “God is not manufacturing more coastal property.” Part of the concern for renewable energy folks is that you could argue that God is arranging for more coastal property, though not perhaps in ways useful to wind farmers on the Texas coast.

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mcv 9y ago
It's going to be great for wind farmers on the Oklahoma coast, however.
- adrianmonk 9y ago
  I have my doubts that sea level will rise 88 meters.
  - mcv 9y ago
    I was joking of course, but 88 meters is not that far above the sea level if all the Earth's ice caps melted. I think if that happens, it would add up to about 70 meters. So Oklahoma is safe, but it would get a lot closer to the coast. Hopefully we can prevent all ice caps melting, and even if they do melt, the process would probably take 1000 years (+/- an unknown number of centuries based on how this plays out, how much we manage to mitigate or accellerate it, etc.).
masklinn 9y ago
> Part of the concern for renewable energy folks is that you could argue that God is arranging for more coastal property Not really though, the overall coastline length will shrink so assuming constant coastal property size, the number will go down not up.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
  Climate change will make climates in parts of the globe more extreme though, no? Is that beneficial to wind power?
  - masklinn 9y ago
    No. More extreme = less consistent, and likely too violent, these are not things you want for wind power. You want consistent wind within the efficiency band of your turbines. Wind spikes are not a good thing, best case your turbines go into protection (they brake and the blades are feathered), worst case they're on fire. Significant gusts also increase wear of the blades, aging them prematurely and increasing the risk of catastrophic failure.
    - chaosbutters314 9y ago
      what about offshore wind farms? More water wouldn't be "so bad". haha. Plus, there was a cool idea about how they could be use in mass to mitigate hurricanes' strength to some degree but I'm not sure how feasible that is

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mcv 9y ago

It's going to be great for wind farmers on the Oklahoma coast, however.

adrianmonk 9y ago
I have my doubts that sea level will rise 88 meters.
- mcv 9y ago
  I was joking of course, but 88 meters is not that far above the sea level if all the Earth's ice caps melted. I think if that happens, it would add up to about 70 meters. So Oklahoma is safe, but it would get a lot closer to the coast. Hopefully we can prevent all ice caps melting, and even if they do melt, the process would probably take 1000 years (+/- an unknown number of centuries based on how this plays out, how much we manage to mitigate or accellerate it, etc.).

masklinn 9y ago

> Part of the concern for renewable energy folks is that you could argue that God is arranging for more coastal property Not really though, the overall coastline length will shrink so assuming constant coastal property size, the number will go down not up.

TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
Climate change will make climates in parts of the globe more extreme though, no? Is that beneficial to wind power?
- masklinn 9y ago
  No. More extreme = less consistent, and likely too violent, these are not things you want for wind power. You want consistent wind within the efficiency band of your turbines. Wind spikes are not a good thing, best case your turbines go into protection (they brake and the blades are feathered), worst case they're on fire. Significant gusts also increase wear of the blades, aging them prematurely and increasing the risk of catastrophic failure.
  - chaosbutters314 9y ago
    what about offshore wind farms? More water wouldn't be "so bad". haha. Plus, there was a cool idea about how they could be use in mass to mitigate hurricanes' strength to some degree but I'm not sure how feasible that is