Here's a fantastic e-mail I received:
The most encouraging wind energy news that I have seen lately is the Stanford study report by Christina Archer and Mark Jacobson.

http://www.nipc.gov/dailyreports/2003/June/DHS_IAIP_Daily_2003-06-04.pdf has a brief synopsis, but in other bookmarks at Florida Tech, I found one to the pdf.

"June 02, Reuters — Study expands commercial U.S. wind power potential. About a fourth
of the United States packs winds powerful enough to generate electricity as cheaply as
natural gas or coal−fired plants, according to a study by Stanford University researchers. The
study, which measured wind speeds at turbines perched at the height of a 20−story building,
also said the Southeast and Gulf coasts offer "the greatest previously uncharted reservoir
of wind power in the continental United States." The Stanford study, the first to measure
winds at new turbines mounted at 262 feet above ground versus older turbines of 164 feet, said
"the unexploited electric power potential from winds in the United States appears
enormous." Tom Gray, deputy executive director of the American Wind Energy Association
trade group, welcomed the study's conclusions and said "it expands on what we have known,
that our wind resource is huge. The study by co−authors Christina Archer, a graduate student at
Stanford, and Mark Jacobson, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was
published in the May online issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research−−Atmospheres.
Source: http://www.energycentral.com/sections/news/nw_article.cfm?id =3884092"

http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2003/05/19/daily21.html is working.

In the full paper, there is a map of CONUS showing the weather stations used. Soundings were used to extrapolate the height to 262 feet to represent the wind speed at a large turbine hub. I was pleased to see that Central Florida had high energy near Cape Canaveral. Florida ranked #14, if I remember correctly.

Eventually, one might see these turbines in near shore to offshore areas from Texas coasts to Virginia or even Maryland. Wouldn't that be great!

Frank

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