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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

[momijizukamori]

This was more or less my immediate thought - basically we know so little about weather patterns that we can't really make a prediction about effects with any remote degree of certainty (see: the frequency with which weather forecasts are inaccurate)