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Inter-University Center for Japanese Language StudiesThe influence of large-scale wind-power on global climate
Brown Bag SeminarDate and Time
October 23, 2003
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Open to the public
No RSVP required
Speakers
David Keith - Associate Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
David G. Victor - Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Center for Environmental Science and Policy
Large scale use of wind power can alter local and global climate by extracting kinetic energy and by modifying turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layer. We explored the climatic impacts of extracting 3-20 TW of electricity with a suite of numerical experiments using two independent atmospheric GCMs and to parameterizations of the wind-turbine arrays. Wind power has a negligible effect on global-mean surface temperature, but at continental scales, the average magnitude of climatic change due to wind power can be significant in comparison to the reduction in climatic change achieved by the substitution of wind or fossil-fuels.
Topics: Energy | Sustainable development
Location
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Conference Room
Encina Hall E409 (fourth floor)
616 Serra St.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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