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[commodorified]

Snaffled from ars technica

Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson likes to take current thinking about renewable energy and supersize it. Rather than aiming for 50 percent renewables, like California is, he has analyzed what it would take for each of the 50 states to go fully renewable. It would apparently involve so many offshore wind turbines that hurricanes headed toward the States would be suppressed.

I feel like that's an unalloyed good, am I missing something here?

Comments

[clanwilliam]

Everyone else gets blown to bits; sufficient climate disruption to have unspecified effect on world ecosystem; rocks fall, everybody (may) die?

[commodorified]

I guess the question is, will it reroute them or just break them up and lower their speed? Sounds like the latter to me, but?

Meanwhile in Canada, rocks ALWAYS fall. We will never run out of downwardly-mobile rocks.

[stoutfellow]

I recall reading that, in one of the Salishan languages, "stone" is a verb. (You'd probably use a nominalized form, "the stoning thing", for our noun.) "It stones" means that a rock is falling. (Cf. our "It's raining".)

[mmegaera]

Speaking as someone who lives in the Salishan lands, that makes absolute perfect sense.