Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power

Cristina L. Archer and Ken Caldeira
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Cristina L. Archer: Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, California State University – Chico, Chico, CA 95929, USA
Ken Caldeira: Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Energies, 2009, vol. 2, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: The available wind power resource worldwide at altitudes between 500 and 12,000 m above ground is assessed for the first time. Twenty-eight years of wind data from the reanalyses by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Department of Energy are analyzed and interpolated to study geographical distributions and persistency of winds at all altitudes. Furthermore, intermittency issues and global climate effects of large-scale extraction of energy from high-altitude winds are investigated.

Keywords: wind power; high altitude; reanalyses; jet streams; intermittency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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