Hurricanes are destructive, and protecting coastlines with seawalls costs money. What if coastal areas could not only protect themselves from dangerous storms, but also earn back money by generating renewable energy? This may be possible if those seawalls are offshore wind turbines

Billions of dollars in U.S. damage from mega-storms Katrina and Sandy might have been avoided with a perhaps surprising device – wind turbines. That’s the finding of a ground-breaking study today that says mammoth offshore wind farms can tame hurricanes rather than be destroyed by them. It says a phalanx of tens of thousands of … Continue reading Offshore wind turbines can tame hurricanes, study finds →