http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/winds/global_winds.html
by Cristina L. Archer (), and Mark Z. Jacobson () The paper summarizing the
results presented below was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research -
Atmospheres in 2005. A copy of the manuscript can be downloaded here (MS Word,
~4 MB) or here (PDF, ~17 MB).
Assuming that statistics generated from all stations analyzed here are
representative of the global distribution of winds, global wind power generated
at locations with mean annual wind speeds ¡Ý 6.9 m/s at 80 m is found to be ~72
TW (~54,000 Mtoe) for the year 2000. Even if only ~20% of this power could be
captured, it could satisfy 100% of the world?s energy demand for all purposes
(6995-10177 Mtoe) and over seven times the world?s electricity needs (1.6-1.8
TW). Several practical barriers need to be overcome to fully realize this
potential.
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