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America's Wind Power Production Drops For the First Time In 25 Years
Wednesday May 1, 2024. 05:30 AM , from Slashdot/Apple
Wind is a key component of the effort to cut carbon emissions, but the data highlights the downside of relying on intermittent energy sources tied to the effects of global weather. Last year's low wind speeds came during El Nino, a warming of the equatorial Pacific that tends to weaken trade winds. La Nina, the Pacific cooling pattern that dominated in 2022 and is poised to return later this year, usually has the opposite effect. The U.S. Energy Information Administration shared the findings in a report published earlier today. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2229245/americas-wind-power-production-drops-for-the-fi...
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