Perhaps, but, what path will a hurricane follow? Not even NOAA, can guess more than 10 minutes out with any major degree of accuracy. For that matter, anything more than about an hour, has a very large margin of error, and even then the hurricane can still do something unexpected.
Greg H. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:20 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Harnessing hurricane/tornado power > <Anyway as another pointed out hurricanes and tornadoes events are so brief > and > <unpredictable to seriously consider them as a power source. > > tornadoes certainly are unpredictable, but hurricanes follow a much more > regular pattern; they last around 10 days (a little less?) from beginning to end, > and hurricane season lasts several months. a lot of energy could be captured > (from tornadoes, too--or the severe weather that accompanies them) with > appropriately designed turbines. > > <Kinda fun to consider the consider the possibilities, though. > > that's exactly right! > > -chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/