Reply to Badger and Volker: Correctly estimating wind resources at large scales requires more than simple extrapolation
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- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713240114
Reply to Badger and Volker: Correctly estimating wind resources at large scales requires more than simple extrapolation
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Comment on
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Wind speed reductions by large-scale wind turbine deployments lower turbine efficiencies and set low generation limits.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Nov 29;113(48):13570-13575. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1602253113. Epub 2016 Nov 14. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016. PMID: 27849587 Free PMC article.
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Efficient large-scale wind turbine deployment can meet global electricity generation needs.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Oct 24;114(43):E8945. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1708350114. Epub 2017 Oct 12. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 29073086 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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