Wind potential
The wind is always blowing somewhere in the United States, though in any given location, it may stall out periodically and there are some locations with better wind resources than others. A new analysis shows that by better matching the scale of the U.S. electricity system to the scale of weather, the country could keep energy costs low, put more wind and solar on the grid, and eliminate much of the sector's greenhouse gas emissions. The study finds that combining wind and solar is important as they are complementary. This animation covers 10 days in January 2008. Visualization by Chris Clack/CIRES
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The bar at the bottom shows wind speed in m/s. The blues represent low wind speeds and the purples /reds represent very high wind speeds. It is a visualization of the wind speeds at hub height over the US each hour for a 10 day period. Illustrating the movement of the winds.
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Without some explanation, it's impossible to tell what this animation means.
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