Windy enough today?
This recent Yale Environment360 article came into focus today when Sky News headlined with: Future of renewable energy in balance as UK suffers wind drought – with ‘global stilling’ to come. Ironically, climate theory has it that warming will happen and will reduce wind speeds over the decades ahead. According to one expert (says Yale), a 10 percent decline in wind speeds would actually result in “a 30 percent drop [in output], and that would be catastrophic.”
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Last year, from summer into fall, much of Europe experienced what’s known as a “wind drought,” says Yale.
Wind speeds in many places slowed about 15 percent below the annual average, and in other places, the drop was even more pronounced.
It was one of the least windy periods in the United Kingdom in the past 60 years, and the effects on power generation were…
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