Comments on: Solar and Wind Potential Maps Released http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/14/solar-and-wind-potential-maps-released/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kai Bosworth http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/14/solar-and-wind-potential-maps-released/#comment-68432 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:03:33 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6397#comment-68432 A nationwide map in a similar format had been available at http://navigator.awstruewind.com/ for some time, but this is great that it includes all of South and North America, as well as solar potential. Sweeet.

]]> By: solarkent http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/14/solar-and-wind-potential-maps-released/#comment-68425 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:34:22 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6397#comment-68425 Hi, yes, very useful, its realy useful having these resources highlighted like this. As I write I am waiting for delivery of my new wind turbine which will be installed over the next couple of weeks – then I am sure I will be presented with an order to remove it by my local council who objected to my otherwise invisible solar panels (I’m not overlooked). Wind maps apart, I’m confident of generating electricity with my new turbine as all the trees I plant grow at an angle! I’m also at just about the highest point in Kent UK.

Can I put a plug in for my own online map, http://www.renewables-map.co.uk which is a private venture to map all the major alternative energy power schemes. One of the next developments on the map is to put a time line of anouncement and installation. The Govt is starting to anounce projects that it had previously announced! Keep up the good work, I’ve just referenced your blog ‘Is your couch a carbon offset’ on my own blog commenting on the EU’s change of heart on the planned 20% CO2 reduction by 2020. It seems half of this can be in the form of carbon offsets! Pathetic isn’t it!

]]> By: gooseberry http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/14/solar-and-wind-potential-maps-released/#comment-68414 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:40:04 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6397#comment-68414 Thanks, very useful.
I hope they make the detail of the map to cover the UK as well.

But even the low detail available outside the US clearly shows that the UK is a good place for wind.

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