Could We Harvest Energy From a Hurricane?
In short: A hurricane runs on warm-ocean heat at a rate beyond humanity's 1990 energy use, but turbines shut down in its winds, large storm-taming arrays exist only in simulation, and ocean thermal plants tap the same tropical warmth on a far smaller scale.
A 1:28 short film in the series “Invisible Atmosphere”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Tropical cyclone - Formation, Paths, Impacts | Britannica”; NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Hurricane Research Division, “Hurricane FAQ - NOAA/AOML”; NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Hurricane Research Division, “Hurricane FAQ - NOAA/AOML”; Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Annual Reviews), Kerry Emanuel, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, MIT, “annrevfinal.pdf”; NASA Earth Observatory (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), “Warm Waters Provide Fuel for Potential Storms - NASA Science”; U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI); article published in Geophysical Research Letters (American Geophysical Union), research by NREL, University of Color…, “Gusts and shear within hurricane eyewalls can exceed offshore wind turbine design standards”; U.S. Department of Energy, Wind Energy Technologies Office, “How Do Wind Turbines Survive Severe Weather and Storms?”; Smithsonian magazine (Smithsonian Institution); article by Michelle Z. Donahue, October 12, 2016, “Can We Capture Energy From a Hurricane?”; Nature Climate Change (Macmillan Publishers); paper by Mark Z. Jacobson (Stanford University), Cristina L. Archer and Willett Kempton (University of Delaware), hosted on a Stanford web page, “Taming hurricanes with arrays of offshore wind turbines”; NOAA Office for Coastal Management (coast.noaa.gov), “technicalfactsheet.pdf”; U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “Ocean thermal energy conversion - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)”.
Sources used in this film
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Tropical cyclone - Formation, Paths, Impacts | Britannica · View →
- NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Hurricane Research Division — Hurricane FAQ - NOAA/AOML · View →
- NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Hurricane Research Division — Hurricane FAQ - NOAA/AOML · View →
- Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Annual Reviews), Kerry Emanuel, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, MIT — annrevfinal.pdf · View →
- NASA Earth Observatory (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) — Warm Waters Provide Fuel for Potential Storms - NASA Science · View →
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI); article published in Geophysical Research Letters (American Geophysical Union), research by NREL, University of Color… — Gusts and shear within hurricane eyewalls can exceed offshore wind turbine design standards · View →
- U.S. Department of Energy, Wind Energy Technologies Office — How Do Wind Turbines Survive Severe Weather and Storms? · View →
- Smithsonian magazine (Smithsonian Institution); article by Michelle Z. Donahue, October 12, 2016 — Can We Capture Energy From a Hurricane? · View →
- Nature Climate Change (Macmillan Publishers); paper by Mark Z. Jacobson (Stanford University), Cristina L. Archer and Willett Kempton (University of Delaware), hosted on a Stanford web page — Taming hurricanes with arrays of offshore wind turbines · View →
- NOAA Office for Coastal Management (coast.noaa.gov) — technicalfactsheet.pdf · View →
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) — Ocean thermal energy conversion - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Tropical cyclone - Formation, Paths, Impacts | Britannica
- Also: NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Hurricane Research Division. FAQ entry contributed by : TCFAQ D7) How much energy does a hurricane release?
- Also: NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Hurricane Research Division: Hurricane FAQ - NOAA/AOML
- Also: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Annual Reviews), Kerry Emanuel, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Clima: annrevfinal.pdf
- Also: NASA Earth Observatory (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): Warm Waters Provide Fuel for Potential Storms - NASA Science
- Also: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI); article published in Geophysical Resea: Gusts and shear within hurricane eyewalls can exceed offshore wind turbine design standards
- Also: U.S. Department of Energy, Wind Energy Technologies Office: How Do Wind Turbines Survive Severe Weather and Storms?
- Also: Smithsonian magazine (Smithsonian Institution); article by Michelle Z. Donahue, October 12, 2016: Can We Capture Energy From a Hurricane?
- Also: Nature Climate Change (Macmillan Publishers); paper by Mark Z. Jacobson (Stanford University), Cristina L. Archer and Wi: Taming hurricanes with arrays of offshore wind turbines
- Also: NOAA Office for Coastal Management (coast.noaa.gov): technicalfactsheet.pdf
- Also: Ocean thermal energy conversion - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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