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There’s a fun study from ten years ago modeling out what this looks like with hurricanes. Not particularly likely to ever happen but it’s a fun read. One of the
by roxolotl 1y ago
There’s a fun study from ten years ago modeling out what this looks like with hurricanes. Not particularly likely to ever happen but it’s a fun read. One of the things that surprised me is the authors assert that you don’t have to worry about building especially strong turbines because they progressively sap the energy of the storm as it approaches meaning the eyewall wouldn’t be as bad.
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2120 https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2120
Article: https://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2014/feb/hurricanes-wind-turbines-022614.html https://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2014/feb/hurricanes-wind-turbin...
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoHow about hurricane-chasing drone ships full of turbines? Kill two bird with one stone! Sap hurricane energy and turn it into renewable energy.
- elric 1y agoWhere does the energy go in this case? The ships would have to be pretty large to have any kind of impact. Should they extract CO2 from the air using the generated power?
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoYeah that sounds good. How about making natural gas using the electricity, as I understand that Terraformer is doing using solar power? The ships will get plenty large if the operation is profitable :-)
- smusamashah 1y agoTo move forward in wind/hurricane the propellers/turbine wings need to move faster than they currently are with the wind. Basically more energy is required to chase the wind. Unless the ship drops and settles inside the hurricane, it won't work.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoBy "hurricane chasing" I just meant constant repositioning to capture wind energy that's currently favorable.
- rightbyte 1y agoYou might be able to anchor. But the whole concept sounds wildly impractical. And a vehicle charged by a turbine can travel straight towards the wind. There are physical models of such. Quite counter intuitive. I wonder of it is theoretically impossible if the vehicle is in the air?