Real-time wind map

Post by rmckayfleming » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 4:08 PM UTC

oliv__ wrote: post #11

Beautiful, but I can't really understand where this is. Does it take into account my location?

Post by atoponce » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

Post by davidcelis » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

danvesma wrote: post #13

seems borked on Safari 8. Thousands of NaN errors.

Post by rcthompson » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

atoponce wrote: post #14

Where is this located? I'm not seeing any geographical boundaries to give me a sense of where I'm looking.

Post by fallinghawks » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

fallinghawks wrote: post #10

rtkwe wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The blades on turbines are massive and would require adding a lot of height to the existing towers. Also working around live transmission lines is extremely dangerous much less trying to add to the tower. It's just too dangerous.

Plus there's the established hazard to wildlife getting chopped in half. A couple months back I read about some kind of passive system involving ionizing water (memory fails; I may be wrong about the method) instead of using turbines. I wonder if building that kind of structure onto a power tower would work.