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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

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. . . what is it doing to the milder weather-systems that come out of the same area as the hurricanes? The same air-currents/etc send "normal" weather and rainfall down there; disrupting them seems like asking for trouble, and the turbines etc would need to run even when it wasn't a hurricane.

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That, yeah.
Balanced against, would it be less injurious than the status quo and I just don't know.