Offshore Wind Farms Could Protect Cities from Hurricanes

Giant offshore wind farms could do more than provide electricity for major cities.  They could suck the life and the power out of hurricanes barreling toward those cities, too, according to Stanford University research presented Monday at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting.

Stanford civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson and his research team found that if it was feasible to build tens of thousands of wind power turbines off the shores of some of America’s cities most vulnerable to extreme weather, those cities would see lower wind speeds and less severe storm surges from approaching hurricanes.

Offshore Wind Farms Could Protect Cities from Hurricanes