{"id":390803,"date":"2018-12-28T07:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-new-study-spells-trouble\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:54:30","slug":"a-new-study-spells-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-new-study-spells-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Study Spells Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Jason Hopkins
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December 28, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wind energy resources have been in sharp decline in regions all across the world, according to a study conducted by Chinese researchers.<\/p>\n

After analyzing data from more than 1,000 weather stations around the world, a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that 67 percent\u00a0had witnessed<\/a>\u00a0an extensive decrease in wind power potential over the course of nearly 40 years. The team \u2014 which also induced a researcher from Purdue University \u2014 reached their findings after examining the changes of wind surface speeds from 1979 to 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results show that surface wind speeds were decreasing in the past four decades over most regions in the Northern Hemisphere,\u201d the study\u2019s authors wrote,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0a Greentech Media report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Around 30 percent of locations in North America have witnessed a 30 percent drop or more in available hub-height wind power. Sites in Europe were worse, where about 40 percent experienced a similar decline. However, the effect was the most significant in Asia, where around 80 percent of sites on the continent saw a 30 percent drop in wind.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not immediately clear what is behind the decline of wind across the Northern Hemisphere. Dr. Gang Huang, a corresponding author of the research, revealed to Greentech Media that they are currently performing a follow-up study to help determine possible causes.<\/p>\n

Huang surmised that surface cover changes \u2014 such as the fast expansion of cities in developing countries \u2014 could possibly be affecting wind speeds, but maintained that it\u2019s just an…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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