UberPhipps

The presidential debates tonight got me surfing….surfing about renewable energy resources.  In the process I stumbled upon this company called 3TIER.  They are a company that is trying to understand and predict weather and climate changes and its impacts on renewable energy generation. Very cool stuff.

I think before any large scale efforts are done in terms of renewable energy resources or alternate energy here in the US we need to actually get some plans together to determine what can really help mitigate both our dependency on foreign oil and the destruction to the environment.  Things like where wind and solar farms should be placed need to be determined in a scientific manner.  Also the effects of creating these large scale farms need to be looked at.  I can almost guarantee a large wind farm will effect climate changes in neighboring states.  Anyway…the maps 3TIER has created appear to be very useful.  But I still think more detailed analysis should be done to find relations with the data that this presents with other climatology and energy research to make better decisions for the future in terms of energy management.