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标题：Saturation wind power potential and its implications for wind energy
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作者：Mark Z. Jacobson ; Cristina L. Archer
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2012
卷号：109
期号：39
页码：15679-15684
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1208993109
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Wind turbines convert kinetic to electrical energy, which returns to the atmosphere as heat to regenerate some potential and kinetic energy. As the number of wind turbines increases over large geographic regions, power extraction first increases linearly, but then converges to a saturation potential not identified previously from physical principles or turbine properties. These saturation potentials are >250 terawatts (TW) at 100 m globally, approximately 80 TW at 100 m over land plus coastal ocean outside Antarctica, and approximately 380 TW at 10 km in the jet streams. Thus, there is no fundamental barrier to obtaining half (approximately 5.75 TW) or several times the world's all-purpose power from wind in a 2030 clean-energy economy.
关键词：atmospheric modeling ; climate feedbacks ; renewable energy ; water vapor ; clean energy economy