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Offshore wind farms could tame hurricanes before they reach land
2014-02-26 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Computer simulations by Professor Mark Z. Jacobson have shown that offshore wind farms with thousands of wind turbines could have sapped the power of three real-life hurricanes, significantly decreasing their winds and accompanying storm surge, and possibly preventing billions of dollars in damages. For the past 24 years, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has been developing a complex computer model to study air pollution, energy, weather and climate....
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Category:Electronics and Electrical